Hello all, I am building a new HTPC system which will hopefully solve my being able to play 5.1 AAC audio. Currently, when the HTPC encounters a 5.1 stream, it has to decode it and reencode to AC3 before sending it over the SPDIF via an ALSA plugin. Looking as some of the mainboards with HDMI output, they seem to do only 2 channel so I'm wondering if a 5.1 HDMI solution exists yet for the PC. Looking for example at the Gigabyte GA-g33M-S2H, the product literature regarding the HDMI is rather confusing. First, it says it's capable of lossless output of Bleu-Ray and HDDVD titles. However, the manual also says that the HDMI port can output 2 channels pcm, AC3 or DTS over the HDMI port. That would seem inconsistent with behing able to do HDDVD lossless as that is 7.1 96k which would need to be decoded. I found something similar when looking at a BioStar board with an nforce chipset. The HDMI in these cases would appear to offer no more functionality than SPDIF. So, just wondering what's out there and which chipsets might offer full audio HDMI to ALSA. I imagine it would have to be on the actual motherboard as the HDMI somehow has to output video as well so a dedicated soundcard won't work. Maybe a video card with HDMI would though. Tia, Shane -- http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
