[mythtvnz] Quick HDMI question....

[Nick Rout]

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

>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>
> [0]
> http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=VGAEVG1311&name=EVGA-GT210-512M-DDR3-PCI-E-2.0-16X-Video-Card-Fanl
>
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