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spinjunky

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Hdmi With Optical Sound Through Vga-cable
« on: December 24, 2007, 09:52:00 PM »

It didn't work for me. The HDMI over rode anything from the vga cable, it was as if the vga cable wasn't even plugged in.  What does work is buying the official hdmi cable kit from MS as it has an RCA and Optical audio adapter included for those tv and receivers that don't support audio over HDMI.
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Spykon

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« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2007, 05:31:00 AM »

Damn ok, well it isn't cheap, but if its the only option.
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accat13

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« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2007, 08:27:00 AM »

Well I'm having the same issues sort of. I saw this link and was wondering if anyone has tried it especially with a new falcon board. http://www.chadledford.com/?p=50
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Spykon

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« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2007, 02:22:00 PM »

QUOTE(accat13 @ Dec 26 2007, 05:03 PM) View Post

Well I'm having the same issues sort of. I saw this link and was wondering if anyone has tried it especially with a new falcon board. http://www.chadledford.com/?p=50


Thanks for the link!!! That should work! Guess I'll have to tear my component cable apart then. First I'm gonna get a decent HDMI cable.
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accat13

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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2007, 12:37:00 PM »

Well all I can say is I'm almost there...I got it working hdmi cable with optical sound 5.1 smile.gif from a stripped component xbox 360 cable ... smile.gif ...Sorry microsoft no 60$ from me..This link helped me http://www.avsforum........4291&page=2 especially the post from Ryansdad...In case it matters falcon board, benq drive, 203w ps
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Spykon

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Hdmi With Optical Sound Through Vga-cable
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2007, 01:21:00 PM »

Well I guess stripping the VGA-cable will work aswell if done right? Don't want to screw my MS component cable when I have a cheap 10 euro VGA cable.
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Spykon

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« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2007, 10:56:00 AM »

accat13, thank you, followed that link aswell and the last page now there is explained exactly how to do it with a VGA-cable. I had a 15 euro cheap VGA-cable and didn't want to screw up my MS component cables and ok it was a bit harder to do, but doable. Now I have HDMI video and 5.1 sound via the optical on the VGA-cable without the VGA and HDMI interfering and giving problems (rebooting). Thanks  pop.gif ! Works like a charm, and the image looks sweet  tongue.gif
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