HTPC and Bitstreamed Audio Guide

It seems that one of the biggest struggles we face in the HTPC arena is getting our high definition audio codecs properly passed from our home theater PC to our ears with the absolute best quality possible. Typically this has been done via multi-channel LPCM over an optical connection to an AV receiver. Now that [...]

Tags: ati, audio, bitstream, hdmi, htpc, intel
Posted February 2, 2010 by vidkun under Guides

Blu-Ray Comes to Linux, Finally!

For the Linux fans out there, today is a great day! Up until now, blu-ray playback support in Linux has been very complicated and quite an aggravating experience. First you would have to hope you had the right BD-ROM drive and that there was a hacked firmware for you to flash it with. Then you [...]

Tags: blu-ray, Linux, makemkv, media player, media server, os x, Software, streaming
Posted January 4, 2010 by vidkun under Guides, Movies, Software