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Many thanks for answering me on this!
I guess I just have to wait till the team at xbmc get real time aac 5.1 encoding implemented.
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or extract the audio componant from your video and convert to ac3 which is supported atm as in my previous post.
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2008-11-16, 17:52
(This post was last modified: 2008-11-16, 19:51 by Amnesiac.)
Interestingly I have a Creative Labs Xi-Fi audio card that does the mapping of 5.1 audio from 6 channel sources to Dolby Digital 5.1 on the fly in the hardware. So far I don't have it working with XBMC at all. It works with pretty much everything else I've thrown at it.
There are a few settings in XBMC I could fiddle with and I'm considering turning the option off in the driver settings but the lack of control of steering output on a PC will be a deficiency I think for XBMC (I have 4 audio output devices in my HTPC - Mobo, ATI graphics Card, HDMI capture/passthru card & Creative Sound Card).
Since I'm new to it I'm going to lurk around a bit and see what's what, but the best solution I can think of is that the PC versions of ffshow have a control panel that by default appears in the task bar. If XBMC can be written to allow the installation of the native PC ffshow then all kinds of routing (including the AC3 filter in post) can be achieved.
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Hi, I have a question regarding DD & DTS output. I've installed XBMC for windows and I'm looking for a soundcard with coaxial or optical out. I want to backup my entire DVD collection to .iso files and I was wondering if XMBC will automaticly outpu DD and DTS from these files to the coaxial or optical out or if thats not supported yet? If it is supported do you have any recommendations for soundcards with optical or coaxial out that are compatible with XBMC?
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slippy
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Can anyone answer this
I am using Atlantis 8.10 and the latest horizon III skin
I went to play a H.264 movie with AAC 5.1 sound. Under the audio settings on the OSD I saw it names my sound as unknown 5.1 sound. I take it that this does not mean that the audio track of the movie is not AAC 5.1 sound? Does it just say unknown because of the fact xbmc does not support AAC and so once they have codec support it will show up as AAC 5.1? Is that right?
The sound still plays just fine on my PC through 2 speakers in analogue mode. There is no sound on digital mode. I just hope someone can please clear this up for me?
Is anyone else noticing this on their AAC 5.1 films?
Many thanks in advance
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we do ac-3 and dts in passthrough mode just fine.
we do not do realtime encoding currently though, so 5.1 aac will only give you 2 chans.
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many thanks for your reply, I already know all that. I was just asking about why it still does not show it as a known audio format? Is this because there is no codec yet for the 5.1 AAC sound?
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2008-12-27, 12:33
(This post was last modified: 2008-12-27, 16:42 by connoleg.)
I have a file taken from a bluray source called xyz.1080p.5.1.wmv which I am trying to get to work on my mac mini using XBMC. I have the audio set to digital and XBMC recognises that its 5.1 in the stream option. However I get no sound output. My Mac Mini is plugged into a surround amp using an optical cable. The configuration works Ok for other files with surround sound which the processor sees as DTS.
Any ideas?
TIA
Update:
VLC wont run the file, I managed to run using QT with Flip4Mac
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when you go to export, the ac3 option isn't there. checking the version that comes with nero 8 now...
