2014-07-08, 11:04
Hello guys,
I'm considering purchasing one of these units in a month or two (to give me a better chance of getting a 2830 CPU) to run OpenELEC/XBMC as a replacement to my WDTV Live SMP (which has been pretty good, but has one important flaw - see below).
But before I go ahead and buy one, there's a few things that I wanted to double-check. I'm sure these have come up at least a few times already, but due to the length of the thread, it'd take me a long time to trawl through for answers.
Thanks in advance, guys!
I'm considering purchasing one of these units in a month or two (to give me a better chance of getting a 2830 CPU) to run OpenELEC/XBMC as a replacement to my WDTV Live SMP (which has been pretty good, but has one important flaw - see below).
But before I go ahead and buy one, there's a few things that I wanted to double-check. I'm sure these have come up at least a few times already, but due to the length of the thread, it'd take me a long time to trawl through for answers.
- Can the GPU in this model handle 23.x/24/50/60hz refresh rates? I've seen some mentions of problems with 23.x hz playback in some other forums, but they didn't go into detail.
- Is it possible to bitstream all the usual audio formats/codecs to my AV receiver (including Dolby HD/DTS-MA)?
- Finally, and here's the crucial feature, can 5.1 AAC audio be decoded in software and output as a 5.1-channel PCM stream? Because my AV receiver (like almost all of them) doesn't support AAC audio, and my WDTV box could decode 5.1 AAC internally, but can only output it in PCM as a 2.0 stereo mixdown.
Thanks in advance, guys!
