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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    Most receivers that I've seen these days are designed for extremely low latency DD decoding, best measured in the microseconds actually, nevermind milliseconds. They do this specifically with games in mind (e.g. on an xbox.) Yeah I figure as much. It just can't be avoided, AC3 just wasn't...
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    I would have expected that too because from the sound of things, the prelude should have superior digital to analog hardware overall than the z5500's. However, it could easily make sense in his case, namely because DDL's key advantage is that it avoids EMI problems entirely. Every fan, every...
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    I am not trying to argue anything, I am only trying to find out what means the prelude uses. But people do believe in that argument, specifically the KX project who made a realtime AC3 encoder for x-fi cards that works with either the kx driver or the creative driver. The lowest latency they...
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    There are two ways I know of that this can be done. One way, creative themselves described thusly: And they are right, doing it this way is going to add significant latency, because you are dealing with post-processed audio. Or, you can encode the audio before it ever leaves the DSP, a la...
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    The odd part isn't how its configured in windows, but how it is dependent upon how the digital signals are wired. In a proper DDL setup the wiring shouldn't matter. See the edit I made to my post above. I guess it could be necessary simply because of the way the x-fi is designed. That...
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    That is certainly an odd implementation. A normal soft DDL implementation would compress the sound on the fly from the dsound buffers as they are made, so the channels match whatever dsound sends out. Creative's implementation sounds like it has to add latency somewhere since it would have to...
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    For analog that could be the case because the card is hardwired differently. Digital could be another story though.
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    Looking around at the inf files, it looks like this card uses the exact same VEN/DEV hex codes as the X-fi extreme music. I think that with some or possibly no modification, somebody could install these drivers on an x-fi extreme music and have full DDL support. Depends on whether there are...
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    Since this is such a small niche category, you never know. I've seen worse blunders from even more well known brands.
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    Has anybody yet confirmed that EAX and DDL work concurrently?
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    When you put something on emule, you should post the size and (off)MD4 hash of it, that way finding the file is easier (or just post the ed2k link if the forums permit it, which some don't.) Since I already found that, I'll go ahead and do that for you: Size: 154274774 ed2kMD4...
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    Right, but they don't need 150MB for all of that. The binary driver itself that gets loaded into the kernel is realistically no greater than 5MB, probably closer to about 2MB. And that is for each OS, and there needs to be four of them, so no greater than 20MB just for the binary drivers...
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    Damn, 150MB for a sound driver? Talk about bloatware. I guess this confirms that the rumors that creative are the ones writing the drivers are true then. I can't picture any other company making a sound driver that oversized.
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    Maybe they meant Q1 08 for DDL and Q2 08 for DTS? :D This is why I never buy anything for promised features, only for what features it has out of the box. Though auzentech will probably fulfill this particular promise, you can almost never rely on manufacturers to fulfill future promises.
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    Auzentech Prelude : Drivers w/ DDL support coming very soon.

    What? You must have an IQ less than room temperature. I never gave that advice. I only pasted what was written on auzen's website, that doesn't mean I am saying to do it.
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