HDMI out to TV, no sound

[Russell Reiter]

What do you view video with. You could substitute VLC for tvtime. You
should notice a marked improvement in the quality of the audio by
taking the audio stream from closer to the source.
Good practice for setting up Myth Tv ;-)

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Thomas Milne
<thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> It's okay, it was just a general question about HDMI :)
> I have the sound going through a separate cable now.
> I _wish_ I had a TV tuner card, but this is just a regular old GPU.
> Eventually I would like to experiment with MythTV, but I don't even have
> cable. I literally download _everything_ that I watch.
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>> >
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>> >
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