HDMI audio output

[chris]

On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:29 -0400, Doug wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 04:24 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 10:13 +0200, Jens Müller wrote:
> >> On 07.06.2011 23:49, 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.
> >> I even have a HDMI audio output showing up in the mixer - but I don't
> >> get any sound from the TV ...
> > Did you poke around in the TV setup to select the audio source from the
> > HDMI input instead of the normal tuner? I mean, if that option even
> > exists. :) Ric
> >
> Here's a message from me to the Ubuntu list a couple of weeks ago:
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley
> 
> 
> 

Unfortunately Doug my Sony does not allow that. I can use that system
with an rgb connector, but not hdmi
Chris