http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs yes, hdmi sound is possible from the raspberry pi. Here is a description on how to get it up and running, looking in to XBMC on linux should also get you up to speed: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/no-hdmi-audio-in-linux-819172/
Many of the surround sound home theater amplifiers current or from a few years back do have hdmi sound capability. I my self have a second hand Denon 2307 that is around 5 years old and it has 7 x 100 Watt audio, that can run a 6 or 7 speaker setup. Look for second hand sourround amplifiers with hdmi audio for a low cost multichannel amplifier. But i do understand the attraction of a very lowcost usb soundcard instead, but then why a raspberry instead of a pc :-). Best Regards Bo-erik -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Malham Sent: den 25 juni 2012 10:12 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] ultra-cheap m/c USB cards for the R-Pi? ARE the full 8 HDMI channels available?? As I read the spec, there was only stereo and this post <http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4101> on the RPi website does not really clear it up much. If that means what it appears to say you'd need a HDMI audio breakout box with internal DAC's (such as http://www.converters.tv/products/hdtv_to_hdtv/698.html or the Gefen boxes http://www.gefen.uk.com/index.php) to get access to it and they're more expensive than a cheap usb audio box. Dave On 25/06/2012 08:29, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: > > http://mitchtech.net/raspberry-pi-audio/ > > Why not just use the 8 HDMI sound channels? > Can you get jack and ambdec compiled for raspberry-pi? > http://offog.org/code/potamus.html is a small player that can play ambisonic > files via jack and ambdec. > > I would love to know it is available, I have not yet ordered a raspberry pi. > > Regards > Bo-Erik > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Dobson > Sent: den 24 juni 2012 18:10 > To: Surround Sound discussion group > Subject: [Sursound] ultra-cheap m/c USB cards for the R-Pi? > > Hi, > > I am setting up my new Raspberry Pi (Debian Linux), and am interested in any > comments, recommendations etc regarding the various really low-cost USB > devices around (e.g under £40, some as little as £12) offering 5.1 or 7.1 > outputs - e.g. Terratec, StarTech, Digiflex; in case any of them are worth > taking a chance on to get surround out of the Pi. Obviously I am not > expecting stellar audio quality (or anything better than 16/48), but they > need to use chips that alsa knows about, such as C-Media and be as far as is > possible a class-compliant USB device. I can easily build the multi-channel > toolkit for the Pi, but there is no point if a surround output is > unachievable. Anyone else exploring the Pi? Needless to say, a simple stereo > USB card is no problem; I have my Edirol UA-1EX working nicely for output. > > Richard Dobson > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -- These are my own views and may or may not be shared by my employer /*********************************************************************/ /* Dave Malham http://music.york.ac.uk/staff/research/dave-malham/ */ /* Music Research Centre */ /* Department of Music "http://music.york.ac.uk/"; */ /* The University of York Phone 01904 322448 */ /* Heslington Fax 01904 322450 */ /* York YO10 5DD */ /* UK 'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' */ /* "http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/"; */ /*********************************************************************/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120625/9e68fb95/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
