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....


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