HDMI out to TV, no sound

[Thomas Milne]

Well in general I use mplayer. It is so simple and there is no unnecessary
GUI to clutter the screen, and the keyboard shortcuts are nice.

Right now, though, I'm playing with XBMC, and I have to say it is very, very
nice. It is not as nice as the Playstation's XMB, but it's close. Very slick
and professional looking, plus of course it has built in support for DLNA
devices like my WD Mybook World Edition.

I am still using speakers that came with a stereo system my wife bought
almost 20 years ago, with a Fisher amp/tuner that my _mother_ bought _30_
years ago (it actually says 'phono' on it! no one under the age of 40 even
knows what that means...)  So...the sound is what it is ;) But yes, that
would be my next step, getting some decent sound equipment. Bay Bloor
Radio...mmmmmm.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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