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I have a beginner's question, so please excuse me. I am wanting to use a RaPi B+ as a media server/player. I would have an external HD plugged in, and I would run everything through HDMI to a Marantz AVR. I would want the AVR to do all of the audio (and possibly video) processing. Can the RaPi pass through a 192/24 flac file? I know it has no problems with 1080p .mkv files, so no worries there. I am reading mixed answers on the HiRes audio though. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Great...so when it is passed through as PCM,it will pass 192/24? Thanks for the reply. What are the issues I have reading about it won't handle anything over 48khz?
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And can you explain what you mean by no receiver supports flac? In my example, I can plug a usb drive directly into my avr, and play flac. I understand the avr must convert to a pcm signal, but I was under the assumption that the receiver itself can read the flac file and do all converting/processing. I have a marantz SR5007 avr. Just curious what you meant.
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Followup question. Is the Raspberry Pi B+ capable of passing an audio signal without processing at all? I have read less than stellar reviews on the audio quality of the board.
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Perfect...thanks for the replies. So is there a setting to prevent the board from processing the audio, or does is automatically send it as passthrough?
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Will re-iterate what others have already said. You can't pass through flac on hdmi.
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Understood. But does the board automatically process the PCM audio, or sent it through as is by default?
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What do you mean "process".
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Basically once it's converted to PCM, does it send it as it is, or apply any audio adjustments to the signal? The board has a DAC of some type...I don't want the DAC on the board to do anything to the signal, I'd rather my DAC on my AVR do it. Does that make sense?
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Thank you...answered my question perfectly....I assume the same applies to a video signal through the HDMI? No processing, just passed through?
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No, the video is processed on the computer. You cannot pass, for example, h.264 video to a TV/Monitor via HDMI.
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