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List:       mythtv-users
Subject:    Re: [mythtv-users] HDMI audio
From:       Zach <uid000 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-07-23 22:00:09
Message-ID: fb4429d10907231500h217f5968j97c0cbef235b3ea7 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Phil Linttell<phil.linttell@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:47:59 -0400
>>
>> From: Zach<uid000@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia 8200 IGP + VDPAU no luck
>> To: Discussion about mythtv<mythtv-users@mythtv.org>Phil,
>>
>> I'll give give 190.x a try.  I changed my cpu scaling to performance
>> which cleared things right up.  However I am getting the tearing, so
>> maybe the newer drivers will help that.
>>
>> I'm also curious about your audio over HDMI, which I'll ask about in a
>> separate thread.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
> Zach,
>
> Thought I'd save you the trouble of starting a new thread to ask me about
> HDMI audio.
>
> Believe it or not, I'm using ALSA to PulseAudio 0.9.15.   I've also tried
> the MythTV patch for PulseAudio (5473).   (I did at one point sideline Pulse
> and use ALSA native, but I couldn't use my Bluetooth headset properly that
> way.)  I figure Myth has to support Pulse properly at some point, given that
> it's so integral to newer distributions.
>
> Pulse let's me redirect the output to HDMI or analogue.... and I can even
> play it in stereo over my Bluetooth headphones.
>
> However, it's not perfect.  With ALSA->Pulse, when I fast forward, I have
> about a 1-in-3 chance of not having any audio... so I might have to forward
> a little further on, or back up a bit until I get it again.  Annoying, but I
> live with it in the hopes that someone will fix it one day  ;-)  Not sure it
> would be acceptable to my wife, but I haven't put my system into production
> yet.
>
> PuleAudio direct I always loose sound after a fast/forward, pause, volume
> change, etc.... and there's no way to get it back short of starting the
> recording over again.   It looks like 5473 is seeing some attention, so I'm
> hopeful it will be the final solution.

Okay thanks Phil.  Do you have 5.1 audio working over HDMI?  I think I
read somewhere that the best you could hope for was stereo with the
linux nvidia drivers.

Zach

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