[nikiiv]

A little bit not exactly XBMC related, but is there a way to see what profiles an NVIDIA or AMD or INTEL graphic card can hardware decode and also what audio streams it can handle via HDMI like DTS-HD, etc..

I hope you get the idea

Thanks
NikiIv

[fritsch]

We do that on Startup of xbmc. If you see your xbmc.log there are all formats that we detect (ac3, dts, eac3, dts-hd, truehd, lpcm, ...). For the GPUs it's done differently, those caps are queried when the specific decoder are opened vdpau for amd and nvidia, vaapi for intel.

[FernetMenta]

The big problem is that this information is not accurate which makes it rather useless. We query and log it but finnaly the user decides by selecting the right settings.

[nikiiv]

Do you use some API calls or call some system utilities or read something from the /proc
Thanks

[fritsch]

Have a look at the code.