atrocity wrote: > Erland, I know the Wandboard and CommunitySqueeze are not your projects, > I'm just choosing your post to hang my two questions on. :) > > 1. Has anyone tried a Wandboard + HDMI setup with DTS and/or AC-3? I'm > curious if it's as bit-perfect as a Touch/SB3 and can be used with my > surround library. > > 2. Since the Wandboard can run its own server and has HDMI output, is > there any chance that in the future it will be possible to use it to > play multichannel FLAC? That's literally the only feature I've ever > missed in a Squeezebox.
#1 does work, I've tried it with DTS, as usual just make sure the volume is at 100%, no upsampling, no replay gain, no fade in etc. #2, is probably never going to happen directly. The entire SB infrastructure was designed around two channel, anything else is pretty much going to take a complete re-write, which is pretty unlikely. It COULD be done in a similar way to DTS over 2 channel, but with lossles codecs. LMS works fine with up to 384K samples per second. It should be possible to convert one of he lossless multichannel formats into 2 channel and somehow get that onto HDMI where it can be decoded by whatever is normally used for that format. I don't know of anybody actually DOING that, but it is technically possible. I don't even know if it is legal without spending gazillions of dollars on a license for the format rights. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99926 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
