voyager2 Wrote:I am still using my audiofile 24/96 and foobar to play flac or wave in a bit match or exact bit output . In my ears xbmc sound horrible, using the same TDA1541A DAC. By reading this I got the idée that it Is possible to get a bit match output at 44,1 KHz? Is that correct?
BTW my pioneer vsx2011 also needs 1 sec to start decoding losing the first half second of the first song
Yes it is perfectly possible. If Alsa supports 44.k khz output for your card it is no problem.
I think you could try in terminal:
aplay -l
From the output, check which one is your digital device. Most cards have it on hw:0,1
After that try:
speaker-test -Dhw:0,1 -c2 -r48000
speaker-test -Dhw:0,1 -c2 -r44100
speaker-test -Dhw:0,1 -c2 -r96000
This way you can check which rates are supported by your card.
If it works you just have to set in xbmc instead of default and iec958 you have to set hw:0,1 for BOTH devices.
I think this way you always get the native sound out from your card whatever sample rate the music (or video ausio) uses.
Maíbe you do even have to kill pulseaudio. I am not sure. Maybe devs can answer that. I don't really know because i don't even have it installed.
I have to tell you that xbmc IS the perfect player if you want the best possible audio quality. For example with my nvidia
hdmi motherboard i can play 192kgz, 24bits with 8 channels perfectly. Amazing sound quality. You just have to set everything right.
Just ask if you have more questions.