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Uncompressed audio stored on HDR-T2?

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    arthurcnorman

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    I am considering attaching a high quality DAC to the optical output of my HDR FOX T2 with the output of that to a good hifi system. Given that I wish to consider storing the bulk of my music on the PVR but I would like to store it in an uncompressed or lossless form, not in MP3. It would be ideal if when I selected and played things I could get mostly stationary metadata or a CD cover image on the TV screen (and certainly not the jumping around stuff that the existing standard music player shows). I would hope/expect that the exact stuff I stored was sent to the optical link without adjustments that would damage quality. Can anybody advise - this must be something others have wanted to do but I have not found where it is discussed - so if there is a good existing thread just point me there and my apologies for not finding it myself sooner. Arthur

    | Tue 26 Aug 2014 19:32:26 #1 |
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    Pretty sure the HDR FOX T2 will only output digital audio stored on the hard disk in the following compressed audio formats, with only mp3 supported as a audio only file. You would have to create some sort of video track for the others (a static image will do).

    Mpeg 1 Layer 2 (MP2) as used by SD broadcasters.
    MP3
    HE-AAC 2.0 or 5.1
    AC3 2.0 or 5.1

    I know for a fact DTS, DTS HD master and .WAV file formats are not supported. Files with either have to have the audio replaced with ac3 or aac adio.

    | Tue 26 Aug 2014 20:02:34 #2 |

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