RadeonHD HDMI Audio Patches Pushed To Master

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonHD HDMI Audio Patches Pushed To Master

Last week new RadeonHD HDMI audio patches were released by an independent developer that allows the integrated audio processor on ATI R600+ graphics cards to be used over HDMI using the open-source RadeonHD driver (xf86-video-radeonhd). Today those patches have landed in the master branch of this X.Org driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjgxNg

[Louise]

I wonder. Isn't HDMI legacy for graphics cards?

The way I understood it is, that Intel and AMD got fed up with the license fee for HDMI, and designed DisplayPort.

[bridgman]

Hard to say. My guess is that HDMI will become "the new standard for TVout" and will replace S-video & component for home theater systems. If you look at A/V receivers they are just standardizing on HDMI in now and I don't see them changing to display port any time soon.

For computer displays, I think you're right -- the world will go from DVI to DisplayPort and skip over HDMI. Then again, that may have always been the plan, nobody tells me

[TechMage89]

Hopefully, in the future, most devices will have both hdmi and displayport functionality. Now if only my notebook machine had a dvi or hdmi port instead of useless vga without my having to buy a ^&*(_&$ overpriced and clunky dock.

I wish the pinouts on the dock connector were documented.