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Hey, I never noticed this thread got some lovin'
Max, the programmer of the foobar2000 sacd plugin has already implemented various decoding optimizations which have made playback between 4-6 times faster than when the plugin was first written. If you people could work more wonders on the optimization part I guess he would be really happy seeing XBMC as having a synergy effect.

A problem that he couldn't tackle so far - and for me this is probably the holy grail - is DSD streaming via HDMI. Many newer universal players can do this, however, there seems to be no real standard. I'd LOVE to see the DSD indicator light up on my Yammy 3067, though... never seen that until now Oppo was going in that direction with DVD-A and Bluray ISOs, but they caved in and removed ISO playback support (I imagine due to legal pressure).

May I also point you guys to the sister thread of this one: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...=dvd-audio
DVD-A ISO playback should be just around the corner as MLP decoding is already present in XBMC. Again, Maxim's ISO code might be helpful there.

Oppo have supported DSF streaming on their current player for a few months now and a number Pioneer and Onkyo AVRs support DSF streaming too. The significance of this is more to do with legal pressure, mainstream manufacturers have taken the lid off DSD streaming now. Would UPNP control of the Oppo BDP-103 be a viable solution?

Another thing I've been unclear on is if Nvidia/AMD support of DSD needs only driver support or if it requires firmware/hardware updates too.