DVI to HDMI cable

[Bathman]

My dad has just brought a 32 inch LCD television.

To wire this up to his GBPVR setup I brought a DVI to HDMI cable to connect his Nvidia 6200 to the tele. The picture is excellent however there is no sound. I assumed that I could take the audio out from the motherboard and route that into the TV by its audio inputs. Unfortunately this does not work. Is it possible to get a cable that is HDMI at one end and then DVI audio in at the other?

A second option may be to buy an ATI 2400PRO. Would this then just need a HDMI cable to from the PC to the tele and this cabel would carry both video and sound. Finally has anbody replaced a Nvidia 6200 with such a graphics card and did it improve the quality of the TV out.

The GBPVR system plays back SD only. DVB-T (freeview)

[pakratt]

Unlike HDMI, which includes digital audio, DVI is strictly video. To get the audio you will need a separate audio cable. I had to do this with my HD cable box and Plasma TV. I'd try the line out from your computer's sound card.

[Bathman]

I tried the line out from my sound card and ran it into the RCA input on the TV for audio but no luck. I get the feeling that the tele can't use 2 inputs at the same time.

[bogyver]

Usually i stress usually there is a specific audio input for one of the HDMI inputs if your TV has two or more hdmi inputs, sometimes its a headphone jack type input specifically for use with a computer over hdmi

[zed]

I have the same issue with my Viewsonic. There's no audio input that works with the HDMI. I guess they assume that you'll be pushing the audio over HDMI so the don't provide a separate audio input to be used with HDMI. I feed the audio from the sound card output into the stereo amp so I have to use it when I watch stuff from GB-PVR. My Mitusbishi, OTOH, has audio inputs associated with the HDMI inputs.

What other inputs does the TV have?

Some of the 2400/2600 cards supposedly will output sound over HDMI if you use the ATI DVI-HDMI adapter (it won't work over a DVI-to-HDMI cable). I haven't been able to get my 2600XT card to work that way, tho...

[tieke]

Some of the 2400/2600 cards supposedly will output sound over HDMI if you use the ATI DVI-HDMI adapter (it won't work over a DVI-to-HDMI cable). I haven't been able to get my 2600XT card to work that way, tho...

Just to say that it might not be worth doing for zed - I figured out how to do sound-over HDMI with my 2600XT card when I got it, but as you had to choose that as the audio output device it meant that you couldn't use the standard audio-out device - in my case I decided that digital 5.1 to my (non-hdmi) amplifier was more important than getting sound out of the TV. (Although this would of course be perfect for Bathman's original problem, so I can confirm that the 2600XT can definitely do what he wants, so probably the 2400 can too).

cheers, tieke

[Bathman]

Unfortunately there is only one HDMI port and I cant get the sound output to work when I connect it up through the headphone type input. I think that I am going to bite the bullet and get a ATi 2400 Pro and then use the sound output on that via a standard HDMI cable.

Many thanks for you advice.

[TornadoTJ]

I have a 2400XT hooked to my TV via HDMI. I have no sound at the TV, but I haven't gone in and modified the settings in Windows to make it the default sound card or anything along those lines. I only mention this because it may or may not be your solution, make sure you can take the vid card back if it doesn't work.

[zed]

You'll also need the ATI DVI-HDMI adapter. If it doesn't come with the card I think you can order it for about $10. Then you use it with an HDMI-HDMI cable. An ordinary DVI-HDMI cable or a non-ATI adapter will not work (well, it won't send the sound, only the video)...you gotta use the ATI adapter.

For me, the ATI sound drivers do not show up in Device Manager even tho I've installed them so there isn't any choice of regular sound card vs. ATI sound. I messed with it for a while and then gave up and just feed the sound card output into my audio amp. I'd rather have the sound go into the TV over HDMI but it just isn't worth messing with. I'm using a Diamond Multimedia 2600XT card and I suspect that it doesn't support sound over HDMI. Make sure that the card you get is supposed to do sound over HDMI.

At any rate, the card works great for HD...

[Squid]

I feel like you could cut apart of a HDMI cable and patch in your own audio from a digital source. I have no reason to think you can, and I am probably wrong.

Can someone who knows things about electricity and wires comment?

Squidi