HDMI audio output

[chris]

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 18:36 -0400, Doug wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 05:49 PM, chris wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have successfully set up nvidia twinview with 10.04, but would also
> > like to get the audio output through hdmi as well.
> > Googling has given me some ideas, but they have not worked.
> >
> > Any thoughts, ideas, appreciated.
> >
> >
> As far as I know, this is a hardware problem.  Your video card, which has
> the hdmi output, has no audio capability. You'd have to get the output of
> the sound card somehow into the hdmi driver circuitry of the video card.
> Maybe there are some real new video cards that have an audio input, I
> don't know.  My Toshiba TV set has an audio input specifically
> designed to work with hdmi-1.  I connect the hdmi from the computer to
> the hdmi-1 input, and a separate stereo audio line to the 3.5mm audio
> jack on the TV.*  I had to manipulate the internal TV programming to
> allow the video and audio to work simultaneously--that's one of the
> options, but apparently not the default--and now whatever is coming
> out of the computer can be viewed and heard on the TV.
> 
> I have only 6 x 4 monitors (or whatever the old standard is called),
> so the video card is putting out that format, and that's what I get
> on the TV, not the full 16 x 9  that the set is capable of.
> 
> * You can buy a tee connector that will allow you to connect your audio
> card output to your local speakers and also to your TV input.  Some
> audio cards have two outputs--mine does, but I don't know what it was
> intended for. Both seem to be identical.
> 
> --doug
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 

I'll check that out, and get back to you