On Sun, 2007-20-05 at 11:52 -0400, Josh Vickery wrote: > I'm curious to hear what folks who use Freevo as a media center (as I > do) think of the music quality they get from their setup, especially > when compared to playing CDs on a mid-range stereo.
I use the digital output from my integrated soundcard and connect it to my A/V receiver. For AC3 or DTS streams, the result is identical to that of my settop DVD player because I just passthrough the stream to my receiver. For non-AC3/DTS content (MP3s say), I am perfectly satisfied with the quality, but one big caveat is that I have to do upsampling of 44.1khz material (to 48khz, which is what my A/V receiver expects to receive) in software (e.g. by passing -af resample=48000:0:2 to mplayer). If I let alsa (or the hardware, I'm not sure which ends up doing it) do the upsampling, the results are appreciably inferior. As my home theater setup will always include an A/V receiver, I would never _not_ go the digital audio route with my HTPC. The quality with this configuration is consistently good. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
