[WINDOWS][PATCH]Bitstream output of HD audio formats

Only watched one movie so far but no TrueHD problems here.

Just to throw my experience into the ring, I've been using Eden final with HD Audio patch. So far I've had no problems at all running DTS-HD MA or TrueHD files, DD and DTS also seem to work fine.

The only minor blip I've spotted is when playing either DD, DTS or DTS-HD MA files, on the codec info screen the missed counter goes up rapidly - by around 10 per second but this doesn't seem to have caused any problems for me.

My setup, in case this helps anyone:

A6-3500
ASRock A75M-ITX
4 GB DDR
Windows 7 64bit

You need to talk Damian into producing a build lol. I believe his builds included global delay.

(2012-03-31 12:33)Phantom_Zone Wrote:  

DanielaE Wrote:I am certainly interested in debug logs (short ones!) if there are problems with packed HD audio bitstreaming - even more so, if you can rectify the problem by disabling the bitstream support of the related audio format in the audio settings panel. In most cases a log is not sufficient by itself to get a clue about the nature of problem. A short (!) data sample may be required to reproduce and debug the issue.

RC2 with your patch works fine, Eden full with your patch doesn't so would that not suggest issue with the patch? I'm no dev so maybe they've changed a lot in Eden since RC2 but I'm equally sure you haven't changed a lot with the patch either...

You may be right (in both cases), but 25 years in software engineering tought me not to infer conclusions prematurely - even more so if there are multiple unknown variables involved. I've scanned the log but I couldn't reason anything from it so far. A similar log, from the very same build playing the same source file with DTS-MA decoded to LPCM rather than bitstreamed might give a clue.

(2012-03-31 16:39)voip-ninja Wrote:  You need to talk Damian into producing a build lol. I believe his builds included global delay.

This is a feature of "Eden" final. People may take advantage of that by uncommenting the related lines in 'advancedsettings.xml' that I've thrown in gratitiously.

Thanks for clearing that up Daniela.

DanielaE, your patch works nicely on my AD10. Can use DTS-HD now.
The AE build doesn't work with my setup. My receiver switches permanently between PCM and dts every two seconds, and I get no sound at all.

Chris

Installed it for a friend with a nvidia graphics card, works like a charm connected to a Pioneer receiver.
Installed it for my own with the new Sapphire HD 7750 ultimate connected to my Marantz AV8003 receiver and when trying to use TrueHD or DTS-HD Master there is no sound. Normal DTS works fine!

(2012-03-31 22:54)michaeldecharon Wrote:  Installed it for a friend with a nvidia graphics card, works like a charm connected to a Pioneer receiver.
Installed it for my own with the new Sapphire HD 7750 ultimate connected to my Marantz AV8003 receiver and when trying to use TrueHD or DTS-HD Master there is no sound. Normal DTS works fine!

The only thing I could think of are driver and configuration....try these-

1. Download the latest driver from here- Graphics Drivers & Software
2. Make sure to connect your system this way- HTPC-->AVR-->HDTV via HDMI cables
3. Select AMD HDMI audio output in Windows control panel and XBMC audio output

(2012-03-31 22:51)ix400 Wrote:  DanielaE, your patch works nicely on my AD10. Can use DTS-HD now.
The AE build doesn't work with my setup. My receiver switches permanently between PCM and dts every two seconds, and I get no sound at all.

Chris

Hey mate - I just upped a very good build of AE to Damian's GitHub - pre-compiled. Runs great for me and sound is amazing for both BD-audio formats and multi-channel or high-def flac. Even mp3's are decoded to higher bitdepths. If you want to try then the latest version is XBMC-AE-20120331.zip. See the thread here for details and settings.

Note that it will affect your guisettings.xml, so rename/backup that file so you can revert as needed.