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.
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
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