HDMI out to TV, no sound

[Russell Reiter]

Does sound work when you watch tv on the computers monitor? A little
more information would be helpful. Do you have optical out for sound
on the video card. Also some video card ship with a dongle to make an
external connection to the sound card. However that doesn't work in
all cases.  Which tv tuner software are you using I've had success
without using a dongle by piping a tvtime signal through arecord by
addressing the hardware directly.

Here's an example to fool around with.

tvtime | arecord -D hw:1,0 -r 32000 -c 2 -f S16_LE | aplay

If you are using jack you might have to address the hardware
differently as, in -plugD or somthing like that. I dont' use jack
currently  but I have been reading about it as Alsa and OSS seem to be
on their way out in favor of Pulse and Jack.

Regards
Russell

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Thomas Milne
<thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I've googled this, and I can't find a straight answer:
> If I have an HDMI out on my video card, and I connect to my TV, is that all
> I need? Should that convey the sound? The manual for the video card says
> nothing on the subject. There were no extra cables or anything, though some
> people seem to be saying you need to connect the video card to a sound
> device?
>
> --
> Thomas Milne
>
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