So I’ve been looking into this. Is it possible to disable audio on HDMI cable?
Can’t seem to find an option to that on the wdtv live box!
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Digital Pass Through via Optical Only (S/PDIF)
Select this option if you are using HDMI for video and a S/PDIF (optical) connection
to output multichannel surround sound to a receiver and do not want audio output
from HDMI.
You sir are a good user manual reader lol! But anyways it is not quite exactly what I’m trying to do.
Well thing is I’m using this little box with a good-old CRT monster; first had been using it with RCA jacks, now decided to upgrade a little using HDMI for video via a $50~ HDMI->S-VIDEO converter. Can’t say it didn’t improve picture quality, in fact it did so by a substantial margin. But the problem is that this little 50$ piece of **bleep** has a real **bleep** audio decoder, so decided to just **bleep** and use HDMI for video and RCA for audio from the not-so-good-but-acceptable DAC inside the wdtv live box (cause quite honestly, analog audio rocks!). And no need to tell me to buy a dedicated receiver because that would be waste of money (CRT TVs usually have pretty good sound for watching movies etc). So bottomline is, I’m not using optical and whenever I select this option, it will cancel out audio for all other connections, including the one currently in use which is analog. But it’s not a big deal anyway. Just wanted to make sure. Thanks!
