2012-04-09, 02:12
(2012-04-09, 00:23)Senthil Wrote:(2012-02-03, 21:00)DanielaE Wrote: Bitstreaming is not enabled for the XBMC music player (yet), but for testing purposes all of the above audio formats may be played with XBMC's video player.
Links:
Source: on GitHub
Binary: XBMCSetup-11.0+HD-audio Windows installer
Hi Dear DanielaE.. you doing a great job. i just have a question for you and it may sound stupid, what are the possibilities of enabling bitstreaming in the music player, is there any workaround to bitstream music files ie: mp3, flac, wav etc...
Daniela can add to this, but here's a synopsis:
- mp3's cannot be "bitstreamed" they must be decoded as they are in the frequency/time spectrum, not amplitude/time, and need reconstruction at any rate. However they have no bitdepth, and can be decoded to any bitdepth, which in XBMC without AE is at 16bit. AE decodes them to float, which gives greater resolution.
- 16bit flac and wav are already bitstreamed as long as you have the volume in XBMC and Windows at 100% and are using exclusive mode for WASAPI. XBMC without AE cannot output higher than 16bits at this time, so 24bit flac is degraded in quality
That's the status now, maybe Daniela has something in the works?