HDCD CDs and transcoding

[vkshankar]

From the logs I attached earlier it is clear that FB2K UPnP server is sending audio/L16 and not audio/L24 !!!

Yet I think the renderer knows that it is getting a HDCD encoded lpcm/L16 stream.

Is it possible that the foobar2000 UPnP server is sending L16, but is setting an HDCD flag on the stream, which the renderer is reading and applying HDCD decoding on the 16bit lpcm stream?

The reason I ask is from the fb2k log file I have attached, I see only L16 being sent to the renderer. The fb2k UPnP server inserts a HDCD tag on the stream url.

If I disable/delete the fb2k hdcd plugin, the url does not contain the HDCD tag. Also I hear a 4 to 6 db volume reduction at the renderer playback if I stream with vs. without HDCD tag.

Relevant sections in log highlighted in yellow in the attached log.