diff --git a/xbmc/cores/AudioEngine/Engines/ActiveAE/ActiveAEStream.cpp b/xbmc/cores/AudioEngine/Engines/ActiveAE/ActiveAEStream.cpp
index a83533de1ebba..8fed06ef08e1b 100644
--- a/xbmc/cores/AudioEngine/Engines/ActiveAE/ActiveAEStream.cpp
+++ b/xbmc/cores/AudioEngine/Engines/ActiveAE/ActiveAEStream.cpp
@@ -276,10 +276,12 @@ unsigned int CActiveAEStream::AddData(uint8_t* const *data, unsigned int offset,
           if (m_format.m_streamInfo.m_type == CAEStreamInfo::STREAM_TYPE_TRUEHD)
           {
             m_currentBuffer->pkt->nb_samples += 2560;
-            uint8_t highByte = (minFrames >> 8) & 0xFF;
-            uint8_t lowByte = minFrames & 0xFF;
-            memcpy(m_currentBuffer->pkt->data[0]+m_currentBuffer->pkt->nb_samples-2, &highByte, 1);
-            memcpy(m_currentBuffer->pkt->data[0]+m_currentBuffer->pkt->nb_samples-1, &lowByte, 1);
+            // Copies the high byte and the low byte
+            // Reason: We cannot assume that on every architecture an int is a byte array
+            // therefore we set those values per manual byte access. An alternative would be memcpy
+            // but this cannot be optimized that fine as the following code
+            *((uint8_t *) m_currentBuffer->pkt->data[0]+m_currentBuffer->pkt->nb_samples-2) = (uint8_t) ((minFrames >> 8) & 0xFF);
+            *((uint8_t *) m_currentBuffer->pkt->data[0]+m_currentBuffer->pkt->nb_samples-1) = (uint8_t) (minFrames & 0xFF);
             m_bufferedTime += m_format.m_streamInfo.GetDuration() / 1000 / 24;
             if (m_currentBuffer->pkt->nb_samples / 2560 == 24)
               rawPktComplete = true;