Re: [LAU] HDMI ?

From: Dave Phillips <dlphillips@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Nov 24 2008 - 21:47:20 EET

Mark Knecht wrote:
> I suspect Dave does actually mean HDMI. There are a lot of laptops
> that are coming with HDMI these days. NVidia is supporting it in their
> chipselts as it enables display of DRM'ed video data on a TV screen
> for watching movies without theft using encryption and Microsoft
> tools. (Please, let's not let this turn political...)
>
> I have heard of MythTV frontend boxes sending recorded video over HDMI
> to flat panel TVs so it does work in Linux, at least to some extent.
>
> Anyway, mostly I'm correcting my mistake before I make poor Dave spend
> too much time on my stupidity.
Thanks for your concern, Mark, but I'm okay. :)

The port is indeed HDMI. The nVidia chipset is the MCP78S (GeForce
8200), which has ALSA support, so I think it's do-able on this machine.

Best,

dp

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