The problem is that Microsoft now owns the rights to HDCD and charges a humongous fee to license it. They seem to have setup their fee structure asuming its going to chip makers who would sell the decoding chips to many different companies rather than as a software decoder to one company.
If Slim Devices were to offer HDCD decoding as either part of a SB or even slimserver without obtaining the proper licensing from Microsoft I have little doubt they would be under immediate legal attack from MS. Now the fun part is to try and figure out how to get at the 20 bits from media player. IF you can convince it to send out a 20 bit stream slimserver could be made to read it. I tried playing around with this a bit last year and could not find an easy way to get those 20 bits out of it. (Microsoft doesn't want to make it easy on anyboby) I'm sure there is a way to do it, but I didn't have enough time tospend on it. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15185 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
