2012-05-01, 15:43
(2012-05-01, 14:50)Streamerke Wrote: - I have a Geforce GS9600, is this the bottleneck? I have a relatively old machine (4 years old) however it performs extremely well otherwise.
Can you stream any audio, like vanilla DD 5.1 out of this graphics card ?
As far I know, the GS9600 featured HDMI, but only had a SPDIF input for bitstreaming, so 5.1 should be possible. DTS with its 1500 kbps
is ok, but HD audio formats definitely not ok. 8 channels of 16-bits PCM at 192 KHz is 25 Mbps....
If you have movies with TrueHD or DTS-HD MA audio tracks, you could let XBMC extract the "core" information, which gives you 5.1 DTS or
5.1 DD.
Or get a cheap graphics card <disclaimer: no fan boy> like a GeForce GT 520 (30-40 euros) </disclaimer> which can do HD audio streaming.