On 11/12/2013 5:37 PM, Jon N wrote: ... > There is one an area that I'm pretty unsure of. I am planning on > purchasing a Nvidia video card and disabling the built in Intel video > support. Since I plan to use this computer as a MythTV > frontend/backend (as well as for general web browsing/email) getting > the audio out on the Nvidia card's HDMI port is important to my > particular setup. So will the audio automatically be switched to the > Nvidia cards HDMI connector?
No, it won't be automatic. And frankly I don't believe nVidia supports HDMI digital audio pass through, nor any discrete GPU card. For argument's sake, let's say it does. Then you run into the problem that the onboard audio chip can't pass digital audio through PCIe to the nVidia HDMI port. None of them are designed to do this, that I'm aware of. If I were you I'd get a mainboard with with HDMI out and use the CPU's GPU. Mobos that have onboard HDMI have their audio chips wired to the HDMI port, the chips support PCM/AC3 digital output, and selecting the HDMI output for digital audio is pretty straightforward. The Intel GPU should be plenty powerful enough for HD1080 output. If you decide it's not, and want to add a discrete card, you'll need a mobo with coaxial digital SPDIF output, or Toslink optical digital output, and a TV or A/V receiver that is cable of using an HDMI input for video while using coax or Toslink for audio. Nearly all modern A/V receivers support this. WRT LCD/Plasma TVs I have no idea how many support this. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5282c88a.3040...@hardwarefreak.com
