[fat-tony]

@DDDamian - Having just read through the 80 pages of Daniela's thread on HD audio support and having seen your link to this thread on the possibility of SACD ISO file support, it makes an old audiophile very happy to be using xbmc!

I started out with the openelec version of xbmc, but got frustrated by the lack of PCM multichannel support (HDMI) on the Fusion platform under linux. I am right in saying that currently there is no capability on the linux platform for uncompressed multichannel audio in xbmc on the Fusion platform? I've had no issues with DD or DTS 5.1 playing over HDMI, but no luck whatsoever with my DVD-Audio collection which I have ripped to FLAC multichannel. I saw the AE branch postings here some weeks ago and it's great to see that real audiophile quality support (inc. 24bit) will be available in the medium term. Even more exciting to me is the possibility of playing SACD images at some point. I have quite a collection of SACDs, but picqued at your postings on support in xbmc, can I ask if there is a method of transferring those to ISO format other than that of using hacked old PS3s to rip the disks? I have quite an expensive Marantz universal player, plus an older Pioneer player which I use for playback currently.

I have been experimenting with a version of xbmc on win 7 just to get my FLAC multichannel rips working. Good success, but obviously only with 16 bit support. I will install the patched Eden RC to check out the passthrough options also. But what I really want is the tight, linux based version which supports PVR and HD audio! Short of grabbing the sources and building it myself (the wife'll kill me if I clutter up the study with even more kit!), what are the possibilities of seeing a linux binary with AE and PVR support within the next month or so?

Keep up the good work - audophile sound matters