2016-03-28, 12:12
(2016-03-28, 07:16)envagyok Wrote: Capable this device passtrough hd audio under Windows or Linux?
AIUI under Windows you will get PCM 5.1/7.1 and DD/DTS/DD+ passthrough over HDMI, so you can use newer versions of Kodi in Windows to output HD Audio losslessly decoded to PCM multichannel (same as the Pi, and early Blu-ray players, PS3 etc.) This will give you lossless HD Audio - but won't allow Dolby True HD with Atmos/DTS:X to be bitstreamed. There isn't HD Audio bitstreaming support in Windows (same reason as for Braswell and Bay Trail Celerons I expect - no Protected Audio Path support?)
Intel don't officially support the Bay Trail X-series SoCs for Linux, apart from with a forked Ubuntu build which has a non-mainline kernel AIUI. Think that may have been PCM 2.0 (effectively emulating an analogue stereo output), though I may be wrong. Linux on the Bay Trail and Cherry Trail tablet SoCs (which are also used in Compute Sticks and these Mini Wintel boxes) isn't officially supported by Intel it seems.
