Ran some tests with SB Player on the Android 5.0 Developer preview build on a Nexus 7 to try out some of the new audio features.
_Higher_Sampling_rates_ The existing version of SB Player will already pick these up and you can set it in Preferences > Performance. It works fine for all sampling rates with tracks that uses the same sampling rate, but the Nexus 7 definitely cannot handle up-sampling 44.1k to 96k. _24bit_Audio_ Turns out 5.0 doesn't specifically support 24bit audio, instead it supports 32bit floating point audio which was the same dynamic range. Fortunately it's trivial to convert lower bit depths to it. It works fine but synchronized playback is a little off. It could be that I just need to do some tweaking or the audio of the preview build of Android isn't quite optimized yet. Also it's kind of pointless to use it right now (see below). _USB_DAC_support_ Works as advertise. I plugged a USB OTG cable into the Nexus7 and plugged a USB DAC into the cable and the audio automatically routes to the DAC. When I unplugged it, the audio paused like when you unplug headphones. However, audio output seems to be locked at 16/44.1 right now which makes supporting 24/96 audio kind of pointless. Does anyone know if the FireTV can output 24/96 to it's spdif connection? -------------- Squeezebox apps for webOS, Android and Windows Phone, http://www.angrygoatapps.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wt0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98049 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
