2012-10-17, 20:37
I've searched and read through a ton of posts, but my question is very simple, and hoping for a very simple clarification. I feel like the more I read, the less I understand...
I have an Optical Audio jack on my sound card (toslink), plugged into my new Onkyo surround sound receiver (7.1). I set XBMC to passthrough the audio. When I play a movie with surround sound, the receiver clicks and displays the audio format (DD, DTS, etc..) I am getting proper surround sound on all my speakers and the movie sounds fantastic. I can literally hear the distinct sounds being played in each speaker properly. My understanding was that this is the proper way to set it up. Whatever the audio format is in the movie, XBMC doesn't care; it just sends it to the receiver to do the work. I'm not losing anything in this setup.
Right?
So what is "bit streaming HD audio", and why do I need to care about it? There is SO much conversation about it and I feel like I'm missing something. Am I not bit streaming HD audio in this case? If I am passing video through HDMI and audio through TOSLINK, then I'm good to go right?
I have an Optical Audio jack on my sound card (toslink), plugged into my new Onkyo surround sound receiver (7.1). I set XBMC to passthrough the audio. When I play a movie with surround sound, the receiver clicks and displays the audio format (DD, DTS, etc..) I am getting proper surround sound on all my speakers and the movie sounds fantastic. I can literally hear the distinct sounds being played in each speaker properly. My understanding was that this is the proper way to set it up. Whatever the audio format is in the movie, XBMC doesn't care; it just sends it to the receiver to do the work. I'm not losing anything in this setup.
Right?
So what is "bit streaming HD audio", and why do I need to care about it? There is SO much conversation about it and I feel like I'm missing something. Am I not bit streaming HD audio in this case? If I am passing video through HDMI and audio through TOSLINK, then I'm good to go right?