Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Matthias Wächter
Am 14.11.2009 13:55, schrieb Steffen Barszus: > C2D E7x00 > Mainboard w/o IGP > GT210/220 Tested a G210: No HDMI sound support with vanilla kernel 2.6.31, and with the simple patch [1] the device is detected but no sound is available, as in [2]. Seems to require more effort to enable G210/GT220 in

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Theunis Potgieter
2009/11/15 Timothy D. Lenz : > The SPDIF can't carry 7.1 sound? It's just digital data stream. Should > be able to carry how ever many channels get encoded to the data packets. > Is the problem not bandwidth requirements? > Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:49 +0100, Luca Olivet

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
If you know something about electronics you could use an unused hard drive connector from your power supply. Bring it out of the case through some connector on that back of the case. Run it to a box with jacks for all your USB tuners to plug into. Just need to check voltages needed by each device.

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
The SPDIF can't carry 7.1 sound? It's just digital data stream. Should be able to carry how ever many channels get encoded to the data packets. Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:49 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote: Well, considering that I cannot find a way to get audio through hdmi with

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Seppo Ingalsuo ha escrit: The situation with Nvidia HDMI audio is perhaps improving, by Googling I found this one: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=140264 "I solved the hw/vendor id thing. Now it is showing when aplay -l but it has 4 different pcm devices with none of

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Seppo Ingalsuo
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:24 +0100, Artem Makhutov wrote: > Sorry, then I don't understand your problem. I have absolutly no > problems with my Zotac ION Mainboard and HDMI Audio output. I think some motherboard integrated chipsets have had working HDMI audio for some time, even Nvidia, PCI-E car

Re: [vdr] Moving to a stream mpeg or h264 with vdr-1.7.9

2009-11-15 Thread Senufo
HI, thank you, I'll wait for bug fix Regards Senufo ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Artem Makhutov
Hi, Seppo Ingalsuo schrieb: On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 11:48 +0100, Artem Makhutov wrote: You can use an .asoundrc to encode 7.1ch PCM to AC3 or DTS and use the SPDIF over HDMI as output device. Tandem coding is not healthy for audio quality if highest quality matters and DD at handles 5.1 "only".

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Seppo Ingalsuo
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 11:48 +0100, Artem Makhutov wrote: > You can use an .asoundrc to encode 7.1ch PCM to AC3 or DTS and use the > SPDIF over HDMI as output device. Tandem coding is not healthy for audio quality if highest quality matters and DD at handles 5.1 "only". > I am also not aware of a

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Artem Makhutov
Hi, Seppo Ingalsuo schrieb: On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:49 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote: Well, considering that I cannot find a way to get audio through hdmi with my laptop and I couldn't get much help on the alsa-users mailing list (as couldn't another folk with the same laptop 5 months ago), I am

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Seppo Ingalsuo
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:49 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Well, considering that I cannot find a way to get audio through hdmi > with my laptop and I couldn't get much help on the alsa-users mailing > list (as couldn't another folk with the same laptop 5 months ago), I am > worried. I'm waiting

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Artem Makhutov ha escrit: I'm still not convinced that a single pci slot is enough though. I am using TeVii S660 and TeVii S650 USB DVB-S2 cards. So I don't need PCI slots. The only problem with the USB devices is that they all require a seperate power supply. Would this be an option

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Artem Makhutov
Hi, On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:45:40AM +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote: > En/na Timothy D. Lenz ha escrit: >> I have seen USB to serial and parallel adapters, but the parallel ones >> are kind of rare and you might need to mod your software > > Oh, yes, I'll surely need to modify it, since my driver

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Steffen Barszus ha escrit: Any card will do or should I look for a specific one with some form of spdif pass-through? I don't have experience on this and its not a concern for me, but maybe still give you some facts: * the cards all have an audio pass trough, no connector though * the c

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Timothy D. Lenz ha escrit: I have seen USB to serial and parallel adapters, but the parallel ones are kind of rare and you might need to mod your software Oh, yes, I'll surely need to modify it, since my driver needs an old-style parallel port, an usb to parallel converter won't do. Howe