XBMC Eden 11 with support audio Dolby true HD and DTS HD

[Wanilton]

Hello my friends,

IT´S ONLY FOR XBMC 11, not for use with XBMC Dharma 10.1.

Great news, today I tested XBMC 11 (eden), with support for HD Audio, and this work fine, I am very happy with results,

First install the last version XBMC 11 beta 2, link here:
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/win32/xbmc-11.0-Eden_beta2.exe

after:

link for download, released 02/01/2012:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25170804/XBMCHD.zip

This zip files, is only my actual directory XBMC in format ZIP.

Install: unzip the files over your actual folder in XBMC, don´t have install, very easy, in my case win7 64 bits, here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC.

Dolby true hd


DTS HD* (won't bitstream full DTS-HD yet, just the core stream)


Config Audio in Settings:


Requirements:
Windows 7 (Vista may work, but there are no guarantees as it doesn't officially support these formats).
An ATI/AMD 5xxx or newer card, an Nvidia 4xx series or newer card, an Asus Xonar card or a newer Intel video chipset.
A receiver that supports these formats hooked up via HDMI.

For more info, visit this topic in XBMC Forum
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=577931&postcount=1


Enjoy,

Wanilton

[senthil]

 Great Job.. i have been looking for this last 10 years.... thanks for letting us know 

[Wanilton]

Thanks, i discovery other way to test this, no necessary use the same folder original XBMC,  for this  I create a new folder XBMC2, unzip the version HD, download here http://www.multiupload.com/2P75XHBODP, and start using the new version hd XBMC, running fine too.

[senthil]

yes me too.. running for a week now and haven't really had any problems, HD movies looks awesome on this release great stuff.. just cant get the full dts hd ma.. other than that everything looks fantastic.. 

[stevos]

Any updates on this. I believe the latest builds have improved things further.

[Wanilton]

Yes, there are progress in AudioEngine Branch:
Now TrueHD and DTS-HD are working ok.
Here the announce developer Gnif:

I am extremely proud and happy to announce that with the help of Anssi, dtsHD-MA now works in AE
Edit:
I should note that there are some hard-coded values for MA which need correcting, so don't expect HR to work yet.

AE is not merged in XBMC Nightlies yet...

code here:
https://github.com/gnif/xbmc

Needs compile in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010...binary builds are not to be released yet, if you wish for a windows build you should get Visual Studio and do it yourself (its free), he has only updated the Visual Studio build files for building XBMC from source.

Instrucion about this in XBMC wiki:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_compile_XBMC_for_Windows_from_source_code

James, agora em pt-br, eu tentei compilar, uma versão do xbmc com os áudios em HD, para rodar no windows 7, mas no dia que testei, encontrei 1 erro, que me impediu de gerar o executável, se tiveres tempo disponível, penso que seria legal você dar uma olhada nos fontes, pelo que vi tem toda instrução da API HTTP creio que de para guardar os fontes (backup), para integrar em futuras versões do XBMC, caso a implementação do JSON, fique ruim para uso com o Voxcommando.
Vou tentar compliar novamente, vi que alteraram alguns arquivos, penso que o erro possa ter desaparecido, caso consiga um executavel do XBMC, eu informarei, não sou desenvolvedor, apenas um cara que tenta, tenta e as vezes consegue..

[stevos]

Great, that seems pretty straight forward.

Will be interesting to try it out.

Using MPC-HC with XBMC works ok but was never the most integrated solution.

[Wanilton]

YES, I compiled XBMC version 11 with AE, and work fine for me, very happy now...

[jitterjames]

congratulations!  Was it difficult?

edit: stupid question removed...

[jitterjames]

I wonder if this will help with my AC3 sound issues.  When I watch TV shows that have AC3 Stereo (only 2 channels) audio, using digital output through coax, I get sound dropouts (silent bits).  Switching xbmc to analog mode fixes it, but it is a pain having to switch back and forth.  5.1 AC3 or anything using DTS instead of AC3 works fine.  It's really weird.  I hope it is not my Onkyo's fault.

[Wanilton]

Hello James,

I think it´s no problem in share this compiled version here,

link for download,
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25170804/xbmc2.zip

Create new directory with the name XBM2 and unzip the content there, don´t have install

Create shortcut for xbmc.exe in desktop, and run.

Remember this version is only for windows, version XBMC EDEN with audio HD...

Not is necessary delete all previous install,

Sound volume is 0, press button + in keyboard for more volume.

I hope this release fix your problem James,

Remeber this version is for brave only, for me repeat it´s ok, but...

Wanilton

Qualquer dúvida estou a disposição, esta versão é original, não alterei o código fonte, apenas compilei, testei e esta funcional...
James se você ver problemas, ou testar e não estiver adequado, favor deletar o post.

[jitterjames]

I will try it tomorrow.  Posting a link here is fine with me.

Thanks.   

[stevos]

Does the link work with DTS-HD MA fully or still just the core version?

Nvm the link doesn't appear to work anymore  

[Wanilton]

Yes DTS-HD Fully...and link for donwload is ok, i test now, fine here.

There are a option in settings: USE EXCLUSIVE MODE, what is this?

Exclusive mode under Windows lets an application take complete control of the audio output device. This is necessary for passthrough since you an't mix bitstreamed audio, but it also allows for unmolested PCM audio to be output.
When exclusive mode is turned off sounds from both XBMC and other programs can be played simultaneously, but it also means that all audio has to be resampled to whatever format Windows wants. I.E. if the Windows mixer wants everything in 48khz then we have to resample everything to 48khz. With exclusive mode on, however, audio will be untouched provided that your sound card or receiver directly supports the sample rate of your media. It will also not be mixed, volume corrected or otherwise changed once it leaves XBMC. In essence, you can get "bit-perfect" audio with exclusive mode.
Exclusive mode is an option of WASAPI, it is not WASAPI. AE has full WASAPI support.

Wanilton

[stevos]

Seems to be working again, must have been a temp problem