I am trying to determine the format of the audio portion of a video being sent from a digital device (DVD player, DVR, etc.) to a digital TV via an HDMI cable. My understanding is that the audio portion of this video is converted to a standard uncompressed PCM format. Is this correct?
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Not necessarily. HDMI devices supporting audio transmission MUST support 2-channel L-PCM but there are a variety of other optional audio formats allowed by the HDMI 1.4b specification.
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It must support uncompressed PCM, yes
Audio data, which can consist of any compressed, non-compressed, PCM, single or multi-channel formats (including the new DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD formats for blue laser DVDs), fit into the video blanking intervals and are sent as HDMI packets.
For digital audio, if an HDMI device supports audio, it is required to support the baseline format: stereo (uncompressed) PCM. Other formats are optional, with HDMI allowing up to 8 channels of uncompressed audio at sample sizes of 16-bit, 20-bit and 24-bit, with sample rates of 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz and 192 kHz.
from wikipedia
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