HDCD CDs and transcoding

[simoncn]

Thanks for this log. I don't see any HDCD tag on the stream URL. The only reference to HDCD is in a log message from foo_upnp.

An HDCD-encoded file has an HDCD flag within the 16-bit audio data. Streaming this 16-bit data "as is" makes this HDCD flag available to the renderer. This enables the renderer to perform HDCD decoding if it has the ability to do this. This post says that the BDP-83 does have this capability and that it is enabled by a setting on the BDP-83. Enabling this setting makes the average playback level 6dB quieter.

What happens if you use MinimStreamer to stream the file as L16;44 without -af hdcd and with the BDP-83 HDCD setting enabled? From the above, I would expect the BDP-83 to receive and decode the HDCD data in the 16-bit audio stream, making the playback level 6dB quieter. Does it do this?