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yoda-sama
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Info: HD audio from PC
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Date created
17-Feb-2016, 12:15 PM

raschi said:

If your nVidia cards can output perfect 23.976Hz, or a multiple of this, then disregard my comment.
All other refresh rates will produce judder and/or dropped/repeated frames for film content.
I have had no personal issues with full RGB mode though.

If we’re going to cram video card discussions into the scope of this topic, then specific claims like these should be supported with relevant links. Harmy’s PC setup is one thing I think he has put some effort into making fit his needs for the projects he works on. It would take some irrefutable proof that one vendor’s cards or models of cards is better for what he wants to do, before he’d start changing things up in it.

If I thought Harmy had a mid to low end PC (which I really doubt, though I’d maybe ask this if he was considering using his old laptop for a dedicated HTPC instead of pulling double duty with his desktop), then arguments could also be made about what model cards allow HD audio passthrough (like nvidia cards below the 600 line [various exceptions, though] don’t support it, though AMD has for longer and Intel has been good about it, too…).

What WOULD be in scope, regardless of video card opinions, would be which audio output device/API in Windows will allow for HD audio passthrough. From what I’ve come across, WASAPI allows HD audio passthrough where DirectSound (a middle layer which resamples audio) does not: http://kodi.wiki/view/Audio_quickstart_guide and http://kodi.wiki/view/Windows_audio (Which actually is similar to ALSA vs PulseAudio in Linux.)