2010-11-27, 10:56
Apologies if this has been dealt with elsewhere, have searched.
Running XBMC Live Dharma RC1 on a acer revo r3610. Video goes over hdmi, audio via spdif to a DTS / DD amp.
DTS and DD pass through works and has always worked fine.
On older versions of XBMC (forget exactly which) when trying to play a eac3 track from a hddvd rip as expected it didn't work, just some of the effects channels played.
No I'm using RC1 (and formerly Beta 4) I've noted the following.
->TrueHD audio track from mkv bluray rip seems to play fine - ac3 core has been stripped. XBMC reports as TrueHD with high bitrate as expected, amp reports as DD. As best as I can tell the track is correct, i.e. as per the ac3 track for said bluray.
->eac3 tracks from mkv hddvd rips also play fine, as per the truehd track. The same track which had failed before now plays. Again as best as I can tell it is playing correctly.
->DTS core from DTSMA track plays fine. As expected I assume.
Have seen a couple of threads referring to ac3 encode in dharma, although not specifics as to whether it would re-encode TrueHD and eac3 on the fly. If this is what is happening then very cool
If not any ideas what I'm seeing (or rather hearing) here?
Anyway hopefully someone can clear up my understanding of this matter. Can of course supply logs and further details if relevant.
Running XBMC Live Dharma RC1 on a acer revo r3610. Video goes over hdmi, audio via spdif to a DTS / DD amp.
DTS and DD pass through works and has always worked fine.
On older versions of XBMC (forget exactly which) when trying to play a eac3 track from a hddvd rip as expected it didn't work, just some of the effects channels played.
No I'm using RC1 (and formerly Beta 4) I've noted the following.
->TrueHD audio track from mkv bluray rip seems to play fine - ac3 core has been stripped. XBMC reports as TrueHD with high bitrate as expected, amp reports as DD. As best as I can tell the track is correct, i.e. as per the ac3 track for said bluray.
->eac3 tracks from mkv hddvd rips also play fine, as per the truehd track. The same track which had failed before now plays. Again as best as I can tell it is playing correctly.
->DTS core from DTSMA track plays fine. As expected I assume.
Have seen a couple of threads referring to ac3 encode in dharma, although not specifics as to whether it would re-encode TrueHD and eac3 on the fly. If this is what is happening then very cool
If not any ideas what I'm seeing (or rather hearing) here?Anyway hopefully someone can clear up my understanding of this matter. Can of course supply logs and further details if relevant.
