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Mac Mini March 2009 - Mini Display Port Audio?

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GustyPolo

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Hey.

I have the 2009 Mac Mini and was wondering if the mini display port has audio output. Does anyone know? I just want to minimize the amount of cables going to my tv.

Thanks,
 
GustyPolo said:
Hey.

I have the 2009 Mac Mini and was wondering if the mini display port has audio output. Does anyone know? I just want to minimize the amount of cables going to my tv.

Thanks,
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I don't believe that Apple supported audio over mini-DisplayPort until the MacBook Pros released earlier this year. I think from that point on any Macs released with mini-DisplayPort then supported audio over it. I believe in your case you need a separate audio cable.
 
Everything my research discovered is that the early and late 2009 mini's don't support audio over mini display port.

I even tried it with no go.

So I'm running optical out to my AV reciever and mini display port to HDMI for video.

For a second audio option I'm going to leverage the "zone 2" feature of my AV reciever.
 
Thermonuclear said:
I'm fairly sure that the 2009 Mac Mini (Mac Mini 3,1) will shove audio through the mini DP output -- if you're converting to HDMI and have the right cable.
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Mini 2009 does not have audio over MDP - it simply isn't in that iteration of the 9400m chipset.
 
Thanks for the responses. Right now I'm just using a 3.5mm jack into my tv. I dont have an av receiver yet. I just wanted to see if I could get rid of that 3.5mm jack and then when I purchased an av reciever I could just use the optical out on my hdtv.

In terms of getting the audio out of mdp, would it be a matter of a firmware upgrade or does the port in these machines just not have the power to move audio?
 
Yes, the audio ports are dual analog/digital (optical). Just plug in a mini-Toslink cable and it'll work.

No, a firmware update will not fix your gen Mini. The NVidia chipset simply does not have audio over MDP.
 
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