Manic Ken
Novice Member
Hello and thanks!
Is it possible to transfer lossless audio over spdif, say, flac audio or dolby trueHD? I know that trueHD cannot be transferred as such, because of bandwidth limitations of spdif (or copy protection concerns as a competing explanation). So in normal case the playback device would detect that there is trueHD available, it would know it's connected to receiver with spdif and then decide to send over spdif only (normal) Dolby Digital 5.1.
As it happens, In my home theater setup I only have two main speakers and a woofer (2.1). Because of that I'm really not that concerned about preserving the spacial information of the audio. I would be perfectly happy with a 2.0 signal coming in to my receiver.
What I really want to achieve (if possible) is to use my Nvidia Shield TV as a playback device and a decoder. I want Shield to chew up trueHD and spit it out as 2.0 pcm without losing any audio quality. I know the spacial information will be lost, but not really missed. Same thing with flac files, Shield should decode them and send them over to the receiver as 2.0 pcm.
In all of it's simplicity, I would much prefer good quality 2.0 sound to bad quality 5.1.
Is this at all possible?
Is it possible to transfer lossless audio over spdif, say, flac audio or dolby trueHD? I know that trueHD cannot be transferred as such, because of bandwidth limitations of spdif (or copy protection concerns as a competing explanation). So in normal case the playback device would detect that there is trueHD available, it would know it's connected to receiver with spdif and then decide to send over spdif only (normal) Dolby Digital 5.1.
As it happens, In my home theater setup I only have two main speakers and a woofer (2.1). Because of that I'm really not that concerned about preserving the spacial information of the audio. I would be perfectly happy with a 2.0 signal coming in to my receiver.
What I really want to achieve (if possible) is to use my Nvidia Shield TV as a playback device and a decoder. I want Shield to chew up trueHD and spit it out as 2.0 pcm without losing any audio quality. I know the spacial information will be lost, but not really missed. Same thing with flac files, Shield should decode them and send them over to the receiver as 2.0 pcm.
In all of it's simplicity, I would much prefer good quality 2.0 sound to bad quality 5.1.
Is this at all possible?