If you had to you could dual boot and use PleXBMC and I bet you could get HD audio pass through using that.. don't know for sure if it would work but there's a chance. From what I understand there may need to be changes on the OS level in order to support DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD but I hope I am wrong. Also, I haven't been able to find if Lion made any of the changes that would be required.
Has anyone gotten there hands on the new 2011 800 dollar mac mini and tried to bitstream trueHD or DTS master using bootcamp to confirm that it works? It should, and if so it makes the new mac mini essential for any serious plex setup with audio
I have done this with my early 2011 mbp and it works great so I'd assume that the mini is no different. Both the hd3000 and the ATI should be able to handle it.
I'd like to know if it's supported in OSX Lion! Now that would be cool. Since the ATI driver is developed by ATI, you would think they implemented the feature in the driver.
Is the driver developed by ATI for sure? That would be awesome I hate having to switch to windows just to bitstream hd audio.
Yes. nVidia and ATI provide drivers to Apple for their video cards.
No updates from anyone on this topic? Does HD Audio work on the new Mac Mini with OSX Lion?
How would someone test this? We would just plug a new AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mini into a compatible receiver and then play it in VLC (selecting the uncompressed audio track? Is that all it would take if the graphics card driver supports it? Or is there code in Lion and/or VLC that would need to be written? Does anyone reading this know the answers?
Lion and VLC will both have to support it. It was the same in the PC world, the OS, driver and player/splitter all had to support it.
From my tests on my Macbook Pro with the ATI 6750M, No.
Yes. I tried using both VLC and Plex, neither seemed to have worked for me. I would think that the driver, the OS, and VLC and/or Plex would all need updates. I haven't seen anything in change logs so far that make it sound like any updates to support HD audio have taken place.
Yeah for me getting HD audio to work with windows took quite a bit of tuning, hopefully it will be easier in OS X if it ever gets the support for it. Maybe when iTunes gets full 1080p and lossless audio support :-/
So many people author video on Macs, right? Does Final Cut Pro support HD audio and if so, how do they test the audio? Is all Blu-ray production done on other hardware?
That's a great question. Maybe someone that uses Final Cut or even Adobe software for editing audio and video could answer that one.
I looked at the specs here: http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/specs/
It mentions only the following formats, no mention of DTS-MA or TrueHD....
Export audio as AAC, AC3, AIFF, CAF, MP3, and WAVE files.
Native editing support for:
Compressed audio including AAC, AIFF, BWF, CAF, MP3, MP4, and WAV
Hey guys!
You all talk about HD audio here!! but what do you do if your mac doesn’t have HDMI… When i play a film on my Mac ( osx lion) using optical lead… The DTSMA sound is just choppy!! i Dont mind just having the DTS core… But have no idea what to use to get these results on a mac!! or can i just add the audio track from the dvd…
Can anyone help please!!
regards chip
Yup, I've had that happen to me, your media player is not extracting the DTS core track. What are you using to playback? And what are you using to rip the Bluray? If you use MakeMKV, it has the capability of extracting the DTS core for you, if you extract both, then the DTS core will be the 2nd audio track, so make sure your player uses the 2nd track. I personally just extract the DTS core, I've given up on HD Audio for my Mac Mini for now.
Hey
I'm just using plex as the media player!! The bluray was already ripped for me!! But it only has the DTSMA soundtrack.. So do i need to convert it to MKV first and let MakeMVK Make a file that i can use? or is there a way to extract the audio and then just add it to plex when i'm viewing it?
Looks like MakeMKV doesnt except BDMV folders :(
you can demux/remux with something like tsmuxer,which will take BDMV structure or mkv, and will also extract the core. Also makemkv will take a BDMV/AVCHD folder structure if you choose "index.BDMV" within the folder instead of the folder itself.
Thanks
I'm using MakeMKV with the index.BDMV method :)
What do you use to Watch your movies? As i've said before i use Plex but only in its basic form!! I just click on the file and use the open file with plex option!!
Worked a treat :) Thank you
I use plex for mac client...how come you are not adding the file to your library and doing the same?
I am considering coming back to Plex now that the new Mini is available. From the conversations I have followed over at xbmc.org the new Mini has no issues doing bitstream of DTS-MA and True-HD when running WINDOWS but apparently Lion drivers are broken and it is not working.
Is there any further progress on getting something working for Plex? The Mini would be going into a home theater room with very good speakers and AVR and all of my Blu-rays are already ripped to MKV with just the HD audio track in most cases present. It would be a lot of work to convert all of those HD audio tracks to either FLAC, DD5.1, etc.
You dont need the 2011 mini for that. The 2010 mini has the exact same situation: it can bitsream lossless HD multi-channel sound over HDMI when booted in Windows 7, but can can only do the standard lossy multichannel when booted in Mac OSX.
