On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu> wrote:

WHAT I DON"T KNOW YET: I don't have an HDMI monitor and so can't test the
"HDMI audio".  I imagine it might be more robust than using  USB audio device
(and, by the way, in 0.44 you can sort of get away with using separaate devices
for input and output, although there's no correction for clock drift).


There are adapter cables designed for the XBox that extract stereo audio from the HDMI stream.  That might work for the Pi.  BestBuy and Fry's have them.  Looks like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874104223