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Old 24th October 2007, 12:40   #404  |  Link
madshi
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Originally Posted by Thunderbolt8 View Post
from what I heard flac is not compatible to standalone receivers, it can only be used PC related in terms that you can only connect the final output with your speakers, but not to an additional receiver (at least when I understood it correctly). so its good to be able to use the full potential of those tracks currently as flac files. but for the future, when trueHD receivers and alikes become more frequent and cheaper I think for home cinema fans with really good equipment it would be great if they could use their additional non-pc surround hardware then with the original tracks and therefore to be able to mux these tracks into the .mkv
You heard wrong. FLAC is not limited to PC. Most of the media player boxes out there (e.g. Tvix 5100 etc) support FLAC. They can output it over analog output or (decoded to multichannel PCM) over HDMI 1.1. Every receiver that accepts multichannel PCM over HDMI should handle that just fine.
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