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Apple Updates MacBook Pro Mini DisplayPort Implementation to Support Both Audio and Video
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I emailed monoprice about this, as well. They said audio support for the MBP is not known at this time.
I pointed out that the monoprice packaging specifically states that the adaptor supports DisplayPort 1.1a ...
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interesting ... when I get home I'll try first mirroring the displays and then check Sound preferences.
Maybe mirroring makes a difference??
Has anybody had success at least with the video going through their receiver? I have a yamaha receiver, and when I plugged the mini-display to hdmi cable into it, I couldn't even get the video to work.
It would be great if I could run one cable into my receiver and have that work, but I am thinking I might have to plug the mini-display to hdmi cable into my TV and then the mini-toslink to toslink cable into my receiver.
It would be great if I could run one cable into my receiver and have that work, but I am thinking I might have to plug the mini-display to hdmi cable into my TV and then the mini-toslink to toslink cable into my receiver.
Oh great, more confusion. This isn't correct.
Apple says "adapters that conform to the VESA v1.1a" are required to pass audio signal.
Either way, the audio does not seem to work through the cable I ordered from monoprice (nor does the video work through my receiver).
Mano a Mano (male to male)
I can see that this guy figured it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gD4Lr4RaG8
But has anyone so far been succesful with a male to male cable?
I can see that this guy figured it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gD4Lr4RaG8
But has anyone so far been succesful with a male to male cable?
I didn't think to look at Display Preferences. Maybe the Display settings are detecting my TV as a monitor instead of a TV (1080p), and it must be set to TV output in order to enable audio pass-through. Another thing to try ...
We're interested in the testing, not pictures. Is it working? Does it pass audio?
Has someone tested this yet with either the MonoPrice or Dr Bott adaptors (or any other type, for that matter)? It'd be great to know which ones work this way and which ones don't.
jW
Will test when I get home tonight. I will cross my fingers. I only purchased this because of the claims from the technicians.
DTS-HD, TrueHD mini-display port to HDMI Griffen
Hi all,
I've got the 17" MBP i7-620M GeForce GT 330M w/8 GB (Mid 2010)
I'm attempting to bitstream Blu-ray HD Audio (DTS-HD & TrueHD) via the MDP-HDMI adapter in Win7 with Boot Camp 3.1. When I plug in the adapter and power on my Denon AVR, the Nvidia HDMI driver kicks in. After configuring the basics, it would appear that the Cirrus logic chip (CS4206a) is controlling the PAVP (Protected Audio Video Path) in Intel's on-board HD Audio. It doesn't seem that the Nvidia driver is able to recognize the PAVP. I modded the latest Nvidia driver 197.16 and successfully installed it along with the latest HD audio driver, however it doesn't make any difference.
Given the HM55 chipset along with the i7-620M with on-board HD Video & Audio the PAVP is incorporated which should allow bitstreamming.
Anyone know the specifics on the audio paths? It would be a shame if Apple hasn't utilized the PAVP properties.
Any ideas out there?
Hi all,
I've got the 17" MBP i7-620M GeForce GT 330M w/8 GB (Mid 2010)
I'm attempting to bitstream Blu-ray HD Audio (DTS-HD & TrueHD) via the MDP-HDMI adapter in Win7 with Boot Camp 3.1. When I plug in the adapter and power on my Denon AVR, the Nvidia HDMI driver kicks in. After configuring the basics, it would appear that the Cirrus logic chip (CS4206a) is controlling the PAVP (Protected Audio Video Path) in Intel's on-board HD Audio. It doesn't seem that the Nvidia driver is able to recognize the PAVP. I modded the latest Nvidia driver 197.16 and successfully installed it along with the latest HD audio driver, however it doesn't make any difference.
Given the HM55 chipset along with the i7-620M with on-board HD Video & Audio the PAVP is incorporated which should allow bitstreamming.
Anyone know the specifics on the audio paths? It would be a shame if Apple hasn't utilized the PAVP properties.
Any ideas out there?
Hi
Have you tried to play a Blu-ray rip with DTS-HD, DTS-MA or TrueHD in OS X to check if it will pass it through to the receiver?
I would be really interested in knowing if it works!
Thanks
FTA: "*NOTE* This product does NOT support audio for the 2010 MacBook that outputs audio through the Mini DisplayPort. "
Have you purchased one of the these?
Have you purchased one of the these?
Hi
Have you tried to play a Blu-ray rip with DTS-HD, DTS-MA or TrueHD in OS X to check if it will pass it through to the receiver?
I would be really interested in knowing if it works!
Thanks
On a related note... I'd be very interested to know if, at some point in the future, or even now, the new MDP audio supports 8 channel LPCM. I have an excellent cinema amp (10 channel/170W per ch). It will accept LPCM, but it's a touch too old to decode the new HD audio formats.
Am waiting on a Mac Mini refresh which will hopefully bring the new MDP with audio support, and so also hope for the above as it will make a wonderful HTPC. Plex FTW!
I have this exact same adapter. I bought it from ebay last year for my June 2009 macbook pro I purchased. It works perfectly on my LCD, but I had to buy a separate adapter to receive sound. It works perfect, sucks to know that a year later the macbooks got updated so the sound can be received just from the adapter
Hi
Have you tried to play a Blu-ray rip with DTS-HD, DTS-MA or TrueHD in OS X to check if it will pass it through to the receiver?
I would be really interested in knowing if it works!
Thanks
Only problem is that none of the available os x players currently support DTS-HD or TrueHD.
Running Windows 7 with Boot Camp couldn't be easier and today I tried both parallels & VMWare Fusion and Boot Camp gave the best "most native" performance out of the three. Only problem is that the Boot Camp drivers don't support the on-board graphics chip & audio chip where the PAVP resides to enable bitstreamming.
English please...
I'm VERY interested in this.
I'm going to be installing Windows 7 on my 13" MBP and was worried about the drivers too.
What does this mean?? Sorry not good with the "PAVP" and "Bitstreaming".
No worries ... so PAVP "Protected Audio Video Path" which is the technology used to protect the data (audio & video) path within a computer during playback (e.g. Blu-ray discs). In other words you cannot send loss-less audio (DTS-HD & TrueHD) to your receiver without it. These two audio formats are found on most Blu-ray discs and are superior in sound quality.
Bitstreamming in a nutshell is sending the loss-less audio out via HDMI from your computer to your AVR (Audio-Video Receiver). In the new MacBook Pro's you can now send audio out of the Mini-display port if you use the Griffen adapter Mini-display to hdmi found on Apple's website.
In theory if Apple has fully utilized the hardware with support in it's os & bootcamp drivers then the i7-620m with on-board video & audio would support the PAVP technology and bitstreamming would be possible. But at this time the bootcamp drivers are not utilizing the on-board audio & video so that Windows 7 is not seeing the PAVP and therefore is not able to bitstream the loss-less audio. The boot camp drivers only support the discrete graphics card (Nvidia GeForce GT 330M).
I wish that Nvidia would step up to the plate and incorporate PAP or PAVP into their GPU's so that we can get a more seamless integration. ATI on the other hand has things covered with their 5xxx card series. PAP is supported and these cards natively bitstream using playback software PowerDVD9 or 10 & Total Media Theater 3.