This link to an AudioAsylum thread describes a method for decoding HDCD
to LPCM http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=dvda&m=20504
In combination with a plugin for SlimServer that could route the output
from a player like WMP or Foobar to SB as discussed in this thread
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20448 would be neat.
Olav
JohnSwenson wrote:
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.
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