<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1496858037147556096" class="bloop_sign"></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On June 7, 2017 at 12:47:50, R P Herrold (<a href="mailto:herrold@owlriver.com">herrold@owlriver.com</a>) wrote:</p> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span><div><div></div><div><a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</a> wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> As a last resort, is there an inexpensive way to get just<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> the HDMI audio?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>and Scott Merrill wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>> I have an HDMI audio splitter. It accepts an HDMI input ...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>So long as one is willing to ignore the video (Jim Prior's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>solution) ... these seem to sell for under $10 delivered to AMZN Prime<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>subscribers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Tendak-Gold-Plated-Converter-Adapter-Projector/dp/B00VTJVJ3S/">https://smile.amazon.com/Tendak-Gold-Plated-Converter-Adapter-Projector/dp/B00VTJVJ3S/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>I don't need the video output. I ordered one of these a little bit ago:</p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NBKTWT0">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NBKTWT0</a></p><p>so we'll have to see how it goes.</p><p>I don't really want to buy/use a display, because it means a (relatively) huge piece of gear. Everything else so far is mounted neatly on a 2'x2' board, with room to spare. Your suggested product might be a little bit better because it doesn't look like requires power. I'm not sure if mine requires power just to use the 3.5mm or not.</p><p>I managed to get omxplayer into a thread so that at least it doesn't block, but I can't figure out to stop the playback ("how to stop a thread in python" search results vary wildly and are incredibly confusing). Hopefully this little device will let me use the HDMI audio and avoid having to launch omxplayer from within python.</p></body></html>