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Title: Is it possible to defeat HDCD in 9z? Post by: DannyD on May 31, 2010, 03:38:39 pm Is it possible to defeat the new HDCD processing functionality? I think it's a great new feature, but my DAC is HDCD-capable so I don't necessarily need XXHE to do it.
When XXHE decodes the HDCD, what bit depth and word length does it send to the DAC? I would think it would need to send more than 16/44.1, which (to me) means that the DAC would have to be more than 16/44.1 and the "DAC is... " setting in XXHE would have to be set accordingly. Is that right? Dan Title: Re: Is it possible to defeat HDCD in 9z? Post by: PeterSt on May 31, 2010, 04:23:03 pm Shutting off HDCD decoding will be possible in a next version (maybe "the" next).
16/44.1 HDCD encoded material will be output in 24/44.1 (32/44.1 for DAC Needs = 32) when not upsampled. And notice that in 0.9z the upsampling of HDCD will not work anyway. Lastly, you pointed out that HDCD decoding requires a 24 bit DAC at least, and a check for that is not in there ... -> to the bug list ! :) Thanks Dan, Peter |