DanielaE/xbmc — comment on commit 0a56c49607695530b29d3f1af1823a7f1e885ebb
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Yes - exactly. On osx/ios, you don't have to care about Realtek specific quirks (the changes in the 200's). All of the other changes are made to teach Windows what kind of HDMI output framing is required. In case of Windows this is done by selecting a proper GUID and the correct streaming parameters (number of channels and sample rate), other OS might do this differently.

Tests without sufficiently capable hardware can tell you no more than you didn't do any harm to exisiting AC3 and DTS bitstreaming.