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HD Audio over HDMI solutions please???
Hi there,
Current specs: -
Mobo = Asus P5N-E SLI
RAM = 4 Gig Corsair
CPU = C2Duo E8400 @ 3.0 Ghz
GFX = nvidia 8800 GT 512 Mb
Panasonic Bluray ROM drive
The issue: -
I am currently & successfully passing 5.1 Dolby and DTS over S/PDIF to my surround system and video is via a DVI to HDMI cable to the LCD tv.
I plan to possibly have a surround system in the near future that can handle the HD audio such as Dolby true hd and DTS master audio.
I understand that these audio formats cannot be passed over S/PDIF and need to go via HDMI so how do I do that? I imagine I need a new HDMI GFX card and some way of giving it the audio signal to pass along too???
There is a secondary requirements to this though, in that I am migrating my gaming desktop hardware to a full ATX HTPC case in which I will be doing my best to keep the Noise level down without going as far as water cooling.
So, whilst Im no longer gaming mad, I do still like a bit of modern warfare etc
So what do I need???
Edit: -
Been reading up since on Radeon 5800 series. Sounds like this could do the HD audio but could be a bit of a noisy hefty piece of hardware for a HTPC maybe??
Also, I am using Total Media Theatre to play my Bluray disks and this can decdoe the audio formats.
The surround amp I buy might not be able to decode them from a PCM bit-stream so I need the decoding to be done by the PC (TMT3), then sent over HDMI.
Last edited by byngo; 19 Apr 2011 at 03:37.