2009/11/15 Timothy D. Lenz tlenz@vorgon.com:
The SPDIF can't carry 7.1 sound? It's just digital data stream. Should be able to carry how ever many channels get encoded to the data packets.
Is the problem not bandwidth requirements?
Seppo Ingalsuo wrote:
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:49 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:
Well, considering that I cannot find a way to get audio through hdmi with my laptop and I couldn't get much help on the alsa-users mailing list (as couldn't another folk with the same laptop 5 months ago), I am worried.
I'm waiting for a 7.1ch PCM audio over HDMI capable PCI-E graphics card. Currently Nvidia does great job with VDPAU video but SPDIF pass-trough limited audio is a disappointment. There is working 7.1ch PCM audio in Linux with AMD and Intel graphics but video acceleration is not usable.
My cheap 8400GS that I bought about years ago looks still like a good solution (plus SPDIF from mobo) :^(
BR, Seppo