It's cool that you got your playback issues sorted. oreillymj Wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what you ultimately want to achieve. i.e how you > are going to create your own 5.1 channel sound to stream. What I want > to do is rip AC3 from concert DVD's. That's exactly what I want to be able to play: AC3 and DTS from DVDs. Concerts, yes, although I may be content with conversion to a lossy stereo format in those cases (depends if the surround aspect is really utilised). Mainly I want access to specially-created 5.1 mixes, such as The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots", or Porcupine Tree's "In Absentia" (Dolby Digital and DTS respectively).
If you rip such a stream from a DVD you won't get a WAV file, but an AC3 or DTS file. The SB2 can't play those formats natively, but with a little help at the outset from something which understands just enough of those formats, playable WAVs can be created. That's what I'm trying to achieve. > But I think you should repeat your tests with flac compressed WAV s from > Kelly Industries or the Swedish radio web-site and I think you'll find > that the SB2 can cope fine with the de-compression I have tried them before, and they seem to work okay (but I will try them again having fiddled with my settings). The SB2 can decode FLAC in general, but I think that the files I'm producing are somehow harder to decode. I opine that this is either down to the DTS format being different between a DVD-sourced DTS file and the type of file on those websites, or perhaps a difference in bitrate. Hopefully I'm wrong and there's something up with my configuration which is affecting all FLAC files (I haven't tried the downloaded files for a few days). -- smst _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
