2012-02-05, 20:37
DanielaE Wrote:The AMD HDMI audio driver seems pretty much independent of the rest of the Catalyst package. You may pull it out of the package and save it away for use with different versions of video drivers. This is basically what I did to switch back and forth between AMD HDMI audio and Realtek HDMI audio. XBMC works with both of them here on Windows 7 and Windows 8 - no strings attached, no funny external codec packs required, straight out of the box.
@meridius @DanielaE - correct it's an independent entity. I've tried previous versions of both the ATI/AMD and Realtek drivers while working on the output sink for WASAPI in AE.
@meridius - the only real issue the latest driver (version 7.12.0.7705 12/6/2011) fixed in my testing was with 88.2 & 176.4khz audio - reported as supported in the driver panel, as well as by the GetSupported() WASAPI method but rejected on actual initialization as unsupported. Corrected in that version. These sample rates are pretty exclusive to SACD DSD/PCM conversion, so if you don't use SACD rips I saw no other benefit.