Sound through HDMI from PC > TV

Call XFX Tech support to send you replacement cable.

I pass audio on my GTX-280 through HDMI. I called BFG and they sent me the cable.

This is the safest way to do it. You get exactly the cable that you need and its free.

The downside is a little bit of waiting ~ 3 days.

Good Luck

Hi Leon,

I have a GTX 280 too. I am trying to get true 7.1 sound. Are you talking about the dvi to hdmi adapter or another cable? I need the HDMI to get 7.1 because SPDIF is only 5.1. Will the sound card decode the sound or the video card? I will have to plug the Hdmi to an External Audio Amplifier, pioneer VSX-919AH-K to get sound from the home theatre system. Will this work?

I hope its the same subject, audio out threw HDMI.

Thanks for your time

No. As NVIDIA cards rely on a SPDIF header, the best you can possibly get is 5.1, and then, only when the source is encoded in Dolby Digital or DTS formats (which more or less requires a sound card to encode the source audio). For NVIDIA, the purpose is to transmit 2.0 sound to a HDTV, as their method really isn't meant for 7.1 or even 5.1...

By contrast, ATI cards have their own onboard sound chip, so you can get 7.1 using HDMI. But you are limited to the quality of that particular chip, as you can not hook up to a seperate sound unit.

HD-Video and 7.1 Audio is restricted HDMI-Port due to HDCP requirement. I may be wrong but thats what i understand.

Thanks, so what I understand is that to get True 7.1 source going into an Audio amplifier,we will need an HDMI sound card like the Asus Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater 7.1 HDMI sound card.

Another workaround would be streaming from a PC to the PS3 threw a router and then connect the ps3 to the amplifier with HDMI.