Thanks I'll check it out. At any rate you give an actual answer, and I don't think it would have happened without my "rudeness". For all it's worth, and I think it's worth a lot actually, trying to force people into your way of doing things is the most rude thing there is, it is just also the most accepted thing there is and goes under the banner of nobility and goodness and Yes I do extremely object to that harassment that everyone on every forum in the world constantly has to endure. It is the lowest form.
You don't get what you want unless you speak out, and that's just the way it is. Sorry for not being able to better express this and in a more concise form without having to go through all that, but you have to win your battles first before they become easier, I guess.
The amount of time lost in this world because people spend more time trying to derail you is just abysmal imo.
Thanks for the link. I seem to be "grossing" (grossieren, Dutch) in those sorts of items
. The trouble is they all require power
. The good part though is that it requires USB power, erm, 5V power, which means USB
. I'm still trying to get or invent a better solution to better power all those silly little devices with less adapters and less outlets needed. In principe it is very easy to craft your own USB to mini-plug cables but I don't yet know if they already exist. Probably they do. It would be nicer to charge that kinda stuff or load that kinda stuff you know with a USB dock or USB charging station or something of the kind. There is no use in having a multitude of 5V adapters all doing the same thing for no reason whatsoever.
Maybe you could also just split those outgoing cables, well, whatever.
The thing actually looks pretty nice you know.
The reason I came back to this thread today, and thank you for responding by the way....
Is that there is another reason HDMI does not work well. Why is this? Well it is a receiver problem but not so easily solved.
The receiver needs time to adjust to the changing HDMI signal and the graphics card closes the stream apparently after the sound stops playing. So the first second of every song? Even if it is the first 1/4 second? It is gone. That is MUCH worse than having a lower quality sound, and I can't really hear the difference, apart from maybe not liking my receiver's "pure" sound so much. The muddled sound of optical may even sound better than the unmuddled sound from HDMI, if you know what I mean.
Strangely, I also hear a difference between one nVidia card and the next. I hear the difference between two different optical outputs. Of course the analog outputs vary greatly, but I do notice the difference between optical from my motherboard and optical from my soundcard. On this one pc that has both. I notice it.
Strangely my nVidia GT 640 (640 GT?) produces a better HDMI sound (on a different motherboard) than does my GTX 950. It is just something I notice. "Omg this is better
". I know probably that the high end vendors rumour this is due to timing, I think that could be true, I don't know.
I'm just saying I notice a difference and usually select my preference based on that. Regardless actually I do remember optical having the same issue at some point as HDMI in this case, just not today? You know what I did on Linux?
I used ffmpeg to create a silent 1-hour audio track and put it on repeat in the background upon login. Except that all these solutions require more work to get functional in a good way and it just is not a pleasant thing to have to do. Plainly, it sucks to have to pick that as your solution. These sound cards / HDMI devices just close their sound signal. And the receiver responds to that by having to renegotiate something.
Maybe that's my wonky receiver again. But I forgot about this thing. I have to constantly now fucking restart every song I freaking play because the first 1/2 second is missing from the song. GREAT PEOPLE
.
. ;-(. I am currently logged onto a motherboard that has optical on board but without the sound card. Let's try it. In this test
I get the same result as on HDMI.
Now I remember why I .. I don't remember. There was a difference between AMD graphics who did this thing and nVidia graphics who didn't do this thing, but I don't remember which was which. It could have been that my motherboard AMD HDMI kept it open and the nVidia card I had back then closed it off. It was due to the driver or apparatus. It was not something "HDMI" mandatory.
I don't remember having this issue with the audio card, but I'm not entirely sure. I don't know if all Receivers are this wonky.
It has always been an issue to me and also a reason I used analog audio for my CD-players rather than optical because the optical, yes, from the same brand, would miss the first half a second of the audio track which is just not acceptable right.
It's not acceptable you know. At which point any sense of superior quality falls by the wayside okay. I think I am fairly certain my soundcard did not exhibit this behaviour or I should have remembered that as well (have been using it for yeeeeaars with optical).
So even though you can say here please that there is no issue with HDMI as a standard; the point and fact is simply that you have no CHOICE when the audio can only be ROUTED over that HDMI cable. If the HDMI circuitry at either the receiving end or at the graphics card end -- that do not specialize in audio, you know -- is faulty, you are already screwed hard in the butthole.
Which I think is a good thing, we just use it for something bad. So now what you do? Replace your graphics card in the hopes of something better? That's not doable. Replace your Receiver in the hopes of something better? It might be doable, but good luck to you in finding something else.
You are just simply locked into something because you have no choice because the channels are combined.
Well the fact that my receiver cannot prefer Optical over HDMI is then my little problem, that's true. Regardless that seems to be the idea right. HDMI over everything.
Anyway, I hope this paints the picture as to why separate cables and separate channels are in fact preferable if you don't want to be screwed hard over by some flawed implementation of anything, the likelihood of which increases the more this stuff is combined. Component-based design gives independence, independence gives freedom, and freedom gives reliability in the fact of something else not being designed the way you want it to, because you can choose something else and have it anyway.
Not so with HDMI. That's all. In any case, I hope you will reconsider your stance on rudeness. I am sorry for making a messy thread content-wise.
I think interfering with and questioning choice is the most rude thing there is. Asking some stranger you don't know "Why do you want to do this? You should do something else" is the most rude thing there is. This person lives possible on the other side of the ocean and you think his life is your concern and that he or she should do what you tell him to? Who gave you the right to impede or intrude open the life or choices of another?
Who gave you the right to direct the course of someone else's life or day? Just because you have the willingness to answer an informational question? That is not a moral question. It was about knowledge, not ethics. and not direction or commandment.
People should just learn, I feel, at least, to respect the path of another person. Interfering with choice is the most common thing on the internet today. This person didn't invent it. But millions do it every day and it is very hard to get informational answers about anything because they all want to change you.
People seem to have nothing better to do than to fix other people.
Maybe I am doing the same here, it is just my opinion. You can do what you like. I'm jus saying it's not helpful and it is not friendly. And yes it does incur some wrath if you keep doing it to people, at least to me it does. I have only so much time and patience to deal with it in a friendly way. You are just the next 100th person doing it this week, I suppose. Could be true right.
I don't have time to indulge the next person again and the next person again and the next person again endlessly until they have stopped being concerned as to WHY I want it and they will answer HOW I could achieve it.
Maybe that is a regretful thing and I guess it is. But time is money, you could say, and I don't have time to educate you here. It is not my job to tutor those who can't understand why I would want something. In some instances it would cost you the rest of your life to do so. And your life and your choices are not another's concern. I repeat.
They are not. Why do you want it? Is not a good question. Particularly not if you are going to argue with every answer you get as if your desires are better than his or theirs. And these questions always lead to arguments, so they are not sincere questions, asking for information.
They are intrusive questions seeking to interrupt and destroy the original intent of the original person asking the question or wanting to do the thing. They are "interferential" by nature. Every person who asks "Why do you want it?" is going to fucking mess with you. Or try to.
The Why of something is not anyone's concern. You know the saying from the underworld "No questions asked?" That is what is meant by it. They don't ask "Why do you need it?" No they just sell it to you. No argument, no difficulty, just business, in that sense.
Imagine a baker questioning as to why you want a bread and whether it is the right bread for you. And every day, you have to go through the same argument. I can tell you that after a while you will be like "Can you just fuck off?" unless you are very mature about it and are capable of silencing them with perhaps more direct and clear ways.
So please you know. Learn the ways of the real world. Learn the ways of real people who are actually doing something worthwhile with their time. Getting on the internet is such a huge risk of wasting your time that I barely even do it even more, because every "bread" I want to buy leads to endless discussions with morons thinking they know better.
Every time I enter an IRC channel I am apprehensive. Every time I post on a forum, some in particular, I "hold my heart". Because there are always going to be people intent on ruining your day.
If you get sucked into some argument or someone's problem resolution strategy you don't like? LOST YOUR ENTIRE fucking evening or more.
And then it takes you fucking 6 hours to discover something "with the help of someone else" who is a "volunteer" and "needs to be respected for that" whereas freaking Google could have told you in 30 minutes or less.
Why? Because Google generally doesn't question your motives. That's why. Now you can call this people skill but that's not it. People skills is cutting people off early. That's people skills. The internet is populated by meaningless individuals who are looking for ways to waste their own time and everyone else they can touch as well.
And then if you are direct, efficient, and get to the point ASAP and you succeed in that in some respectful way? Are they happy?
No, you get into arguments anyway because you didn't provide all of the information they requested, which would have meant spending two more hours in senseless debate.
Instead, you were efficient, direct, perhaps a bit ruthless, but you solved your problem in a timely manner. They happy? Not at all. Other people will chime in and tell you they have no "time" for you if you don't provide all the information they supposedly "need" to troubleshoot your problem. Which would result in endless time-wasting. But they DO have time for THAT.
Not saying anyone here did that today but it is pretty much of the same style as the person who answered me here. A person clearly not interested in helping me find a solution to a problem he disagreed with, or to a desire he thought was wrong.
Maybe I am mistaken about that, please tell me. From the looks of it, I seem to be pretty accurate in that.
In times of trouble, polite forms are allowed to be discarded. What is important is that you find safety. To get out of danger.
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