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coolh
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hi
i'm what you call an audiophile, standing joke; listens more to equipment then music...
i would say the xbmc cdplayer is inferior to the built-in one that comes with the xboxdash. xbmc seams to lack certain filters to make the sound warmer, and filters that do not give you a big separation between base and the mid and upper registry. and stereo output isn't really well balanced, when there are different sounds, from the cd that is being played, in the back and front of the speaker and left and right, xbmc just doesn't keep up..
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seeing as the built in ms-dash does hardware upsampling (and does it particularly bad) i would guess they would sound different.
put hq resampling on in xbmc.
the signal is pure digital all the way through - can't say anything else about it really.
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sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but just out of curiosity: what does hq resampling actually do?
recently purchased a dd/dts home stereo receiver, and ever since i've been using the digital out i've been wondering what makes hq resampling produce higher quality? i remember reading some threads at the time it was introduced, but didn't have an intrest at that time...
-munde
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"hq" resampling uses a software routine known as *ssrc* instead of the hardware resampling of xbox. why it's called "hq" is since ssrc manages the *udial* sample.
google stuff within * * to get more info
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ive got a kiss dp1000 player but tbh im a little dissapointed with the current state of hardware xvid .... it seems to run jerky unless i'm prepared to spend huge amounts of time recoding the files with all sorts of exotic utilities.
if something plays properly on my pc i expect a dedicated player to be able to handle it but seems the current generation xvid chipsets have marginal horse power. would i have any more luck with an xbox media center since i imagine it hase vastly more horse power than these cheap dedicated players ?.
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if you can justify the price do it and ebay the hardware player.
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around this time of year, you should be able to find an xbox and pickup the appropriate hardware for well under $200...if you want to watch xvid i simply can't imagine anything much better than an xbox.
i'm ripping all my dvds to ~2gb xvids and then the xbox upscales them to hd res and it looks tremendous on my 56" hdtv.
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well i just got my new xbox yesterday, put xbmc straight onto it as the default dash and well... my kiss dp450 is going to gather a lot of dust.
the video player in xbmc is far, far superior to the dp450. no more skipping , stuttering xvid's, no more waiting for a minute to search an hour into the file, if the audio is out of sync due to a bad encode then it can be fine-tuned.
i'm very very impressed. i had both the dp450 and a hauppauge mvp box. both of which are now totally redundant in the face of the xbmc.
i've just got to quieten the bloody xbox down now!
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why do people keep recommending modchips when softmods are so easy, and cheap?
these softmod packages like idot's ltools are foolproof and work on every xbox.
my box is softmodded and everything works perfectly.
the second you mention a mod-chip, people will shy away, thinking opening the xbox and soddering wires is just not worth it.
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xbmc plays pretty much every video file great! an xbox is amazing when you compare it to a divx player. oh, and it can play xbox games! and not to mention all the other programs/emulators that it has.
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