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Old 25th October 2007, 21:03   #418  |  Link
madshi
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Originally Posted by honai View Post
For example, video cards with nVidia chips that provide HDMI 1.3, i.e. a/v transport over HDMI. These have a protected BIOS (using public/private key cryptography), and only players signed against that BIOS will be able to send HD audio/video from HD-DVD/Blu-ray discs over the HDMI connection.

In other words, of course you can send arbitrary video over HDMI (i.e. the DVI part of it), but if I recall correctly the current implementations of HDMI 1.3 on video cards don't provide a system-wide audio driver at all, i.e. you won't be able to send arbitrary audio samples over HDMI at all - unless you run a specific player which directly communicates with the (nVidia) video card protected BIOS, in which case you *can* send TrueHD/PCM over HDMI.
You're wrong. The video cards do provide a system-wide audio driver. At least the ATI cards do. And it can be used from MPC.
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