Hey,
Just a bit of feedback...
So I tested the build last night in my ion based htpc and my AMD based htpc.
Ion does not bitstream dts-ma or dts-hr but it does still work as a htpc with 7.1 pcm etc so I used this to test if any bugs were present in a generic build that was not exclusively bit streaming, and was instead decoding true hd streams to PCM etc etc etc.. Just incase these patches had Introduced any bugs else where...
From what I can see it works perfectly for the generic users who are not bit streaming HD audio. No bugs seem to have been introduced for those not bit streaming...
I did notice a small screen flicker in the video that was not present in beta2 so I've not idea if this bug was introduced by version of xbmc this is merged with of if it was directly related to this patch. I'm going to roll back today and test the same video, but I definetly noticed a screen flicker (a similar bug was mentioned in the help forum for beta users so i assume it's a xbmc code issue not related to this patch)
Second, i tested bitstreaming from my AMD 6320HD and what I can see there was no major issues noticed except my dropped frames jumped from an average of about 1 MAX per movie (if that) to about 4 per movie.
This could be xbmc code related again, as I mentioned above there seems to be a video glitch causing screen flicker in the beta builds (mentioned by other users in the help threads)
I then tested as many formats as I could and all SEEMED ok, with the exception of DD+. this format gave me the most issues? It seemed to stutter and stammer quite regularly? (by regularly I mean more than 4 per movie but less than 8) which during a 90 minute film was about once every 15 minutes? Strange as DD+ is not a high Bitrate etc as TrueHD which seemed to be ok (again with the exception that most of my movies have dropped frames ranging and averaging between 4/8 now rather than the original 0/1 at most.
I tried virtually all combinations i could think of and overalls I think if this is merged with the Eden release then I think it'll be good to go as overall it was far more successful than the AE builds (at the moment) on my htpcs.
Tl;dr
Some dropped frames, some video flicker which may infact be coming from xbmcs beta code and not this patch, but overall pretty successful.
Great work Daniela