[mythtvnz] Break out audio from HDMI

[Nick Rout]

Robin I have a spare USB/SPDIF device you can have if you like.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:54:22 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>Oh what fun!!
>>
>>Just discovered (after owning it for some 9 years) that my theatre amp
>>only switches the HDMI, it doesn't actually take the audio from it :(
>>
>>That means that of the several options for a frontend I've been looking
>>at, they all have HDMI output and/or analog audio but no SPDIF.
>>
>>I can get a USB<->SPDIF device for $15 from China or a $35 HDMI breakout
>>patch box from Amazon. Can anyone thing of alternatives since optical or
>>coax digital audio seems quite scarce now with HDMI being so prevalent.
>>
>>Cheers
>
> Lots of sound cards and motherboard audio has the SPDIF connector as
> standard.  That is because the chipsets used for audio these days do
> SPDIF by default, so why not connect the pins since they are there.  I
> have it on the back of all of my modern PCs, and an optical one
> (Toslink) hidden at the bottom of the headphone jack of my laptop.
> Sometimes it is not available on the back but is still on the
> motherboard internally.  So check for that first.
>
> Failing an existing SPDIF or Toslink connector, then I would recommend
> a USB SPDIF adapter.  There are some that are reputed to be very Linux
> compatible, and quite cheap.  SPDIF gives you more options.
>
> Another less good option is to use the SPDIF connector on the back of
> your TV - many have one now.  That will likely only be stereo though.
> I have that working for the rare occasions I need it.
>
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