[mythtvnz] Quick HDMI question....

[rob at webworxshop.com]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:06:36 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:19 AM,  <rob at webworxshop.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> After all the hardware recommendations you provided me with I went
>> ahead and bought all the components on Saturday and assembled my box
>> (it's very quiet!). It's yet to have an OS due to me being busy
>> yesterday - that will be tonight's job.
>>
>> There were two things which I missed when buying my components. The
>> first is that I didn't realise that IDE has completely gone the way 
>> of
>> the Dodo in favour of SATA. This means another trip to pbtech 
>> tonight to
>> pick up a SATA DVD drive (rather than using the IDE one I already 
>> had
>> spare).
>>
>> The second thing is HDMI. I have a HDMI output on the graphics card 
>> I
>> bought (an EVGA Nvidia 210 [0]) and the respective input on my TV. 
>> My
>> question is whether a direct HDMI connection between the graphics 
>> card
>> and the TV will give me audio over HDMI, or do I need a special 
>> cable?
>> If this will work with just a standard cable, is there any 
>> configuration
>> magic required to direct the audio to the graphics card?
>
> It should work out of the box. make sure that the output is not 
> muted,
> and scan for audio devices in mythtv, and select the obvious one, it
> will probably be something like alsa:HDMI
>

That's just what I wanted to hear, thanks!

Rob