Hi,

I can play my files in 24-bit/96KHz (flac) but I was told that in fact it is reconverted to 16-bit. Is that true ?

I don't know where's the limitation: xine-lib ? ffmpeg ?

Thanks for help.

The limitation (if any) is probably your soundcard.

I have an ESI juli@ wich support 24-bit. (based on the ICE1724 chip)

Perhaps if you cite your sources for your initial claim, you might get a better response.




I've been told that Amarok was in fact written by wolves. Is that true?

It was on the alsa mailing-list.
I just want to know If xine-lib can decode 24-bit audio without reconvert it to 16-bit.

Thanks

Perhaps this question would be better addressed to the xine development team, or write to the person who you saw originally mention it asking them for clarification.

atomik wrote:It was on the alsa mailing-list.
I just want to know If xine-lib can decode 24-bit audio without reconvert it to 16-bit.

I don't think xine-lib will downsample the audio if it is not configured to do so when using a hardware/driver combination that is capable. Whether it gets downsampled after it leaves the control of xine-lib depends on the limitations of your hardware and the driver for it. You may only get 24 bit output if you are playing the audio through the digital output, on several variants of the Soundblaster Audigy cards the FX processor was only 16 bit so any time it is used the audio is downsampled even if you are using digital out and the software you use has no control over that except if the option can be provided to bypass that part of the hardware that isn't capable.

For more details you need to first figure out the capabilities of your audio hardware, then into the capabilities and options that alsa and xine-lib provide relative to the capabilities of the hardware you have.

I would expect there to be a higher density of people on the mailing lists/forums for alsa and xine that could at least partly answer these questions.

Later, Seeker

This is indeed an issue with the xine libs -- Its not to do with re-sampling. I have hardware that definitely supports 24bit Audio... I had everything working with version 1.13 but the current version is broken on me.