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XBMC Audio Engine Gets Big Rewrite, Dolby TrueHD And DTS-HD Master Audio Hit Your Media Hub
engadget.com 11 hours, 38 minutes agoFans of XBMC who've wanted their HTPCs to replace the higher-end components of a home theater setup, like Blu-ray players and higher-end receivers, are having their wishes fulfilled through a completely reworked sound system. AudioEngine, as it's called, can processevery stage of audio encoding and decoding, even with 7.1-channel formats like Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio . As the code uses more precise floating point math, the improvements can bolster heavily compressed audio and allow for upmixing
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How-To: XBMC 11 The XBMCbuntu Way
engadget.com 1 week, 1 day agoFor all intents and purposes, the original Xbox, with its NVIDIA GPU, 8-10GB hard disk and custom Pentium III processor was a high-end PC for its time -- albeit, one that connected to a television. What Microsoft didn't realize back then, though, was that when you put that kind of hardware in the hands of hackers and enthusiasts, it's only a matter of time before people start doing more than just playing Halo . Fast forward to 2003, the year the Xbox Media Center was born. Nowadays, it's simply referred to
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