My 2006 Mac Pro is starting to feel a bit old and I am thinking of getting a new computer in the future. With that, I am thinking of what to do with the old Mac Pro and have decided it would be great to use as a media center. My plan is to put a Blu-Ray drive in it, stock it with large capacity hard drives in some sort of software RAID configuration and rip my Blu-Rays to the drives using MakeMKV. I don't plan to compress the MKV and instead want to use the uncompressed Blu-Ray track.
It has an HD 4870 in there and I am trying to figure out if I can use an adapter on one of the mini display ports to output both video and audio to a receiver. I want to be able to use the uncompressed audio tracks that come on many blu-ray disks (7.1 surround) and so I believe the optical port on the Mac Pro is not sufficient. Is it possible to pass the 7.1 track over HDMI through the mini display port?
P-Worm
It has an HD 4870 in there and I am trying to figure out if I can use an adapter on one of the mini display ports to output both video and audio to a receiver. I want to be able to use the uncompressed audio tracks that come on many blu-ray disks (7.1 surround) and so I believe the optical port on the Mac Pro is not sufficient. Is it possible to pass the 7.1 track over HDMI through the mini display port?
P-Worm