[mythtvnz] Quick HDMI question....

[Steve V]

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>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?
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>My experience is that the audio over HDMI requires a little magic in the ALSA setting and I think more specifically in the asoundrc file.
>I know I had to make some setting originally (about 2 years ago) but often these things get incorporated into the default so you may be lucky. 
>If you want to do things like simultaneous output of sound to HDMI (to TV) and to spdif (to amp) then you almost certainly will have to add an asoundrc file. 
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