HDMI output under Linux

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On 02/01/2008, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 17:04 +0530, JoJo jojo wrote:
> > Wrong mailing list !
>
> Actually, you need support in both places -- the video driver has to
> expose some additional functionality to the alsa driver. HDMI audio
> capabilities depend on the video mode as the audio packets are
> transmitted during blanking intervals, making the available bandwidth
> for audio depend on the video mode (yikes!).
>
> > try here instead ...
> > http://alsa.opensrc.org/DigitalOut
>
> Surely some collaboration will be necessary to get HDMI audio working
> though. For now, the only solution is to use the existing non-HDMI audio
> outputs.

Huh? So much for loose coupling and compartmentalization! The OS ought
to provide abstraction to HDMI as two independent devices: one for
video and one for audio, then it's upto the software (say, a dvd
player) to decide how to use them. Why would you mangle audio with
X11?..

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IM