2015-08-04, 13:22
(2015-08-04, 13:16)pr0xZen Wrote:(2015-07-13, 21:48)wanthd Wrote:(2015-07-13, 21:02)Matt Devo Wrote: marketing jibberish. Braswell bitstreams HD audio just fine, many people have tested it
Braswell can passthrough HD Audio (DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD) even on Windows 8.1?
Passthrough HD Audio didn't work on old baytrail (J1900/J2900) on Windows 8.1.
I'm interested in buy a Asrock N3150-ITX, but i have this doubt about the HD Audio.
This (DTS-HD, DD+ passthrough in Win 8.x) - was a Protected Audio Path issue. Netflix relies on it for DD+ passthrough, so does Win 8.x for DTS-HD. After about a year of fiddling, Intel coughed up the explanation; The DN2820 was set up to rely on Intel Management Engine for PAP. But they left out the HW to support the IME.
A large group of users reported finally getting passthrough working after Intel Trusted Execution Engine took over for IME - BUT it also includes (or included - this might have been sorted in recent driver updates) installing GFX drivers 10.18.10.3958 - intended for the D34010WYK(H). See Intel support thread here .
Seeing how they got the ball rolling, I don't really see why DTS-HD passthrough shouldn't be supported with the new NUCs. Just make sure Intel Trusted Execution is actually enabled in bios, and the device is running fine in Windows. I'm not sure if it requires UEFI boot, but I would most definitely believe so.
@nickr - please ease up the seemingly endless prodding of Windows and its usage. Millions of Kodi users run Kodi off Windows, and they all have their own reasons. You're a linux guy - great! Just please don't knock everything else in this manner, its degrading to what still remains the largest userbase-platform for Kodi.
You seem to be quite sure regarding a proprietary driver that was made for an old hw revision. I would not buy this hw until it fully works in windows ... cause - in comparison to linux, where we hacked the HD audio support ourselves - you don't have a single chance to do something yourself in those binary blobs.
And until that happens: I warn everybody, that if you need windows and HD audio passthrough - wait. One can never trust that binary releases will be made.