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

(2012-04-03 21:44)DDDamian Wrote:  Yep, 6450 all the way. Rocks for me with sync off, or on only for shits and giggles. Buy one

Is there a real difference to the 6310 of an E-350 APU?

(2012-04-04 10:57)ffreak Wrote:  Is there a real difference to the 6310 of an E-350 APU?

XBMC seems to work perfectly well on my E-350 APU - even with sync disabled.

Using your RC2 build i have about 15 dropped frames everytime, maybe i should update

(2012-04-04 12:19)ffreak Wrote:  Using your RC2 build i have about 15 dropped frames everytime, maybe i should update

Hey - try both - it's easy enough to change to any of these versions. But yeah, 6310 != 6450. Somewhere in this thread I posted a link to some tests done on various GPU's, and even though it was getting dated the 6450 stood out in timing precision. That and they're dirt cheap now and more than capable for HTPC use. Perhaps a google will find a more recent test with newer GPU's.

(2012-04-03 16:53)voip-ninja Wrote:  No, this patch (linked in 1st post by the patch author) is not an AE branch and gets you HD Audio.

This is not entirely correct either....as Daniela stated, the patches included AE codes in it.....

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(2012-04-03 21:44)DDDamian Wrote:  Yep, 6450 all the way. Rocks for me with sync off, or on only for shits and giggles. Buy one

HD6450 FTW.......

(2012-04-03 20:22)pro510 Wrote:  Also I was mistaken about the PowerDVD working, that was with my other HTPC which uses an ATI 5450 and connects to the same AVR.

That is what I thought, because I never see PDVD bitstream without seeing HD audio formats in W7 control panel. So, what GPU are you trying to make it bitstream with the patches?

(2012-04-03 20:22)pro510 Wrote:  All my connections are correct. All Windows see is DTS, Dolby Digital, and Dolby Digital Plus.

Thanks again

You should see DTS-HD, TrueHD, etc in it too......

(2012-04-04 16:36)bluray Wrote:  

(2012-04-03 16:53)voip-ninja Wrote:  No, this patch (linked in 1st post by the patch author) is not an AE branch and gets you HD Audio.

This is not entirely correct either....as Daniela stated, the patches included AE codes in it.....

To be fair here - Daniela borrowed very little indeed from AE - her work is almost entirely based on master with the minimal necessary changes for DTS-MA/TrueHD to work, as opposed to AE which basically threw everything out and started again from the ground up.

As I've stated before Daniela did this with remarkably surgical precision - it does what it set out to do very well indeed. It bears almost no resemblence to the AE code, it's almost the opposite extreme. I'd be surprised if this patch had 1% of the AE code. Two very different animals

If the devs get the HD sound to work on Mac OS I'll imediately buy a Mac Mini. Unfortunately, I don't think that OS X does support HD-Audio per se.



Chris

If they got it working on XBMCuntu I'd switch in a heartbeat to that. However, it never occurred to me that a Mac Mini would be a good option.

Mac support is not possible because even though some Macs (new Mini for example) have the necessary hardware, OS X does not provide drivers/codec support for HD audio, such driver packages would need to be available before any HD audio bitstream on a Mac was possible.