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Originally posted by Maxim LevitskySorry but EAX is integer you insensitive clod!!
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Originally posted by caligula View PostAgreed the situation will be a lot better when most Linux systems run systemd, pulseaudio, bluez5, kernel 3.10+, btrfs, wayland, opengl 4.0 capable gpu drivers.
Problems that remain are: how to output digital multichannel audio to your receiver. Currently I don't know if any Linux technology does this. If it does, it uses legacy DD or DTS lossy audio. For example I tried this with pulseaudio and multichannel routing only works with analog for me. Tried with 5 nvidia cards with hdmi output, intel, sound blaster audigy 2, external DACs.
On top of that game distribution might need a single package manager. While all of them have advantages, the package management isn't a hard task. We could do better and have only one. One that also supports per user app installation so that you don't need to be superuser.
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Don?t know about other players - does anyone know about the state of this in vlc, mpv etc?
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Originally posted by caligula View PostAgreed the situation will be a lot better when most Linux systems run systemd, pulseaudio, bluez5, kernel 3.10+, btrfs, wayland, opengl 4.0 capable gpu drivers.
Problems that remain are: how to output digital multichannel audio to your receiver. Currently I don't know if any Linux technology does this. If it does, it uses legacy DD or DTS lossy audio. For example I tried this with pulseaudio and multichannel routing only works with analog for me. Tried with 5 nvidia cards with hdmi output, intel, sound blaster audigy 2, external DACs.
On top of that game distribution might need a single package manager. While all of them have advantages, the package management isn't a hard task. We could do better and have only one. One that also supports per user app installation so that you don't need to be superuser.
Seems to me PulseAudio can do multichannel just fine. That said, it was indeed a mission to get 5.1 to work over HDMI in the first place, however most of this is down to the implementation in SteamOS.
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Originally posted by Tinuva View PostReally? I converted my HTPC to SteamOS and moved my XBMC install over to that. Upgraded my receiver. Pulseaudio forced me to not make use of passthrough. Now the audio gets decoded by XBMC and sent like that to PulseAudio, which then sends it out as LPCM to the receiver (set to A.F.D. which mean it doesn't convert stereo to 5.1) which then outputs 5.1 just fine. Using an old Intel Icedale motherboard, onboard HDMI.
Seems to me PulseAudio can do multichannel just fine. That said, it was indeed a mission to get 5.1 to work over HDMI in the first place, however most of this is down to the implementation in SteamOS.
Works like a charm
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Originally posted by GraysonPeddie View PostI'd like to refer everyone to the forum rules here:
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Originally posted by tomtomme View PostPulsAudio can decode normal DTS and DolbyDigital (5.1) but not more. If you want DolbyTrueHD or DTS-HD Master you need XBMC 13 beta without pulse-audio and just passthrough (without decoding) instead. I have installed pulse nevertheless for the rest of the system and just kill it when I start xbmc - see my howto if you like:
Works like a charm
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