[pulseaudio-discuss] bitstream hd formats over hdmi?

2015-02-13 Thread Andrew Henry
Hi, I read in 6.0 changelog: 7.1 audio support for HDMI has been added. And wondered if this also means that we can now bitstream DTS-HD MA and True-HD over hdmi through Pulse audio? I was trying out Kodibuntu recently and found out that they revert to ALSA instead because this is not

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] bitstream hd formats over hdmi?

2015-02-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
13.02.2015 17:59, Andrew Henry wrote: Hi, I read in 6.0 changelog: 7.1 audio support for HDMI has been added. And wondered if this also means that we can now bitstream DTS-HD MA and True-HD over hdmi through Pulse audio? I was trying out Kodibuntu recently and found out that they revert to

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] bitstream hd formats over hdmi?

2015-02-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
13.02.2015 20:05, Andrew Henry wrote: I was always under the impression that it is better to let the AV receiver decode the bitstream, rather than supplying the receiver with an already decoded (L)PCM signal, but your comment made me think a bit about this. What is the reasoning behind letting,

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] bitstream hd formats over hdmi?

2015-02-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
13.02.2015 19:52, Andrew Henry wrote: Is this feature (hd audio bitstreaming) on the to-do list? As far as I know, no. The reason that I would give is that, once ffmpeg implements a proper DTS-HD MA decoder, it will never be necessary (because HDMI, unlike SPDIF, has enough bandwidth to

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] bitstream hd formats over hdmi?

2015-02-13 Thread Andrew Henry
I was always under the impression that it is better to let the AV receiver decode the bitstream, rather than supplying the receiver with an already decoded (L)PCM signal, but your comment made me think a bit about this. What is the reasoning behind letting, for example ffmpeg do the decoding in

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] bitstream hd formats over hdmi?

2015-02-13 Thread Andrew Henry
Is this feature (hd audio bitstreaming) on the to-do list? On 13 February 2015 at 15:15, Alexander E. Patrakov patra...@gmail.com wrote: 13.02.2015 17:59, Andrew Henry wrote: Hi, I read in 6.0 changelog: 7.1 audio support for HDMI has been added. And wondered if this also means that we