bpa wrote: > The BBC high rate is AAC 320kbps/44.1kHz. This was called HD sound by > the BBC and user complained that terms which have "HD" are usually 96Khz > but BBC replied that is why they used the term "HD sound" which is not > used by anybody else. > > The BBC are always mucking about with availability - the http/AAC > 320kbps stream was available to UK and non UK for about 18 months and > then the restrcite it to UK only and left 56k/32kHz http/AAC for non UK > users. Redcently for non UK they have changed again and enabled the > 320kbps Flash/ACC for non Uk but the http/AAC is still 56kbps/32kHz. > > It is easy to verify the stream quality. First findout how much data > has been received in say 3 minutes from the BBC stream using netstat and > then calculate what the compression ratio is for a 16/44 streams vs a > 24/96 stream. I think you'll find the AAC compression would be > impossibly high for a 24/96 bit stream.
Thanks. So this leaves the question as why avp1's DAC is reporting 24/96 for these streams. Seems impossible, and thus an error on the DAC's side. Don't know.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
