2014-08-20, 04:54
I have a motherboard evga with HD card in it with 1 optical output.
XBMC was detecting the sound as HDMI and passing trough with no issues and the receiver was detecting the incoming sound signal correctly (DTS, etc,etc)
Recently the optical plug just broke and I've decided to replace the video card with a new one with HDMI output (My old video card has only DVI connector, that was the main reason to use the optical output embedded in the motherboard)
For my surprise when I plugged the new video card (Nvidia Asus 630) I found that the pass trough is disabled and I can only reproduce as PCM.
I have already read all the documentation from XBMC and I'm not seeing any issue with the hardware configuration
My questions are
Why I cannot passtrough the sound using the HDMI in the video card?
Do I have to get an specific video card in order to do it?
If I get a new sound card with optical output, Can I passtrough the sound then?
Thanks
XBMC was detecting the sound as HDMI and passing trough with no issues and the receiver was detecting the incoming sound signal correctly (DTS, etc,etc)
Recently the optical plug just broke and I've decided to replace the video card with a new one with HDMI output (My old video card has only DVI connector, that was the main reason to use the optical output embedded in the motherboard)
For my surprise when I plugged the new video card (Nvidia Asus 630) I found that the pass trough is disabled and I can only reproduce as PCM.
I have already read all the documentation from XBMC and I'm not seeing any issue with the hardware configuration
My questions are
Why I cannot passtrough the sound using the HDMI in the video card?
Do I have to get an specific video card in order to do it?
If I get a new sound card with optical output, Can I passtrough the sound then?
Thanks