2011-11-02, 06:35
Hi guys.
I'm in the process of setting up a stereo/home theatre system for a small apartment. What I want is to set up an all-in-one system that makes the most of the small space that I have.
With this in mind, I'm setting up a HTPC to send its audio through a DAC to a stereo amplifier. I don't mind not having surround sound (not enough space for that), and I don't mind if the sound of my DVDs and avi/mkv/etc files isn't COMPLETELY perfect, as long as I can get bit perfect audio from the flac files I rip from my CDs.
Although XBMC is limited to 16 bit audio for now, I think this is irrelevant to me for the most part because although multi-channel Blu Ray and DVD rips would be processed by the software due to being higher than 16 bit, they would need to be processed anyway to downmix the audio from 5.1 or 7.1 to 2.0 for the DAC to understand it.
So what I'm wondering is, has anyone managed to set up bit perfect audio (i.e. comparable in sound quality to, say, Foobar2000 run through WASAPI) in XBMC for 16-bit, 44.1 kHz flac files?
I have tried using Foobar as an external player for flac, but this didn't work too well and it kind of ruins the flow of the XBMC interface to have another program opening on top of XBMC which is then difficult to close, etc.
I'm in the process of setting up a stereo/home theatre system for a small apartment. What I want is to set up an all-in-one system that makes the most of the small space that I have.
With this in mind, I'm setting up a HTPC to send its audio through a DAC to a stereo amplifier. I don't mind not having surround sound (not enough space for that), and I don't mind if the sound of my DVDs and avi/mkv/etc files isn't COMPLETELY perfect, as long as I can get bit perfect audio from the flac files I rip from my CDs.
Although XBMC is limited to 16 bit audio for now, I think this is irrelevant to me for the most part because although multi-channel Blu Ray and DVD rips would be processed by the software due to being higher than 16 bit, they would need to be processed anyway to downmix the audio from 5.1 or 7.1 to 2.0 for the DAC to understand it.
So what I'm wondering is, has anyone managed to set up bit perfect audio (i.e. comparable in sound quality to, say, Foobar2000 run through WASAPI) in XBMC for 16-bit, 44.1 kHz flac files?
I have tried using Foobar as an external player for flac, but this didn't work too well and it kind of ruins the flow of the XBMC interface to have another program opening on top of XBMC which is then difficult to close, etc.