All, I've been thinking some more about my future Freevo machine, one that will work with HD, and I think I have a cunning plan ;)
I would like to stick my PC in the cupboard. This allows me to do away with my expensive and small media centre PC and have a high powered PC which can sit in the understairs cupboard, using nice big low noise fans, and generally be out of the way, this also lets me have a fast CPU and decent graphics card for HD playback and possibly even some games. It also gets around the expansion problem or having to have a case that looks good in the lounge. This means running all the output from the cupboard to the Telly :) Looking around HDMI would seem to be the best way of doing this, I can send stereo and digital audio over HDMI along with the video signal, and have it automagically picked up by the TV. The digital audio can then go into the amp and be turned into surround sound if required (when playing back DVDs). Best of all long HDMI cables are fairly cheap, and it means only running 1 cable. Now this is all well and good in theory, but I cannot find much information on how to achieve this, and certainly not in linux. There appear to be a few cards out there with HDMI out for video but no way of getting the audio into the HDMI signal. Does anyone know of any video / sound card pairs that fit the bill, and most importantly actually work on Linux! Cheers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
