agentsmith;367798 Wrote: > Thanks, I did manage to downmix some DVDAs to stereo and they sound > stunng good on the Transporter. If the DTS portion sounds better I > would love to try it. But if I could ask a few more questions: > > 1. I could not find anyt reference of DVD in the Slim wiki. Are you > referring to the Slim wiki? > > 2. Many of my DVD-A discs do not seem to have a DVD-V portion. Is it > only for 2 sided discs? Or does every DVD-A disc have a sccret DVD-V > portion? > > 3. When I rip the DVD-V discs with DTS, is there anything special I > have to do, or do I just use DVDAExplorer and rip to WAV? Does > transporter support DTS natively. > > 4. You mentioned 48KHz, don't many DVD-V discs have 96.24? I cannot > tell 48/24 from redbook CDs. > > 5. I mistakenly ripped some of my DVD-A discs in 5.1 mode, and it hangs > my Transporter by refusing to play any files, I had to do a hard reset > to bring it back. Does your Transporter do that? > > 6. I notice you are Meridian guru, the only Meridian I have is an F80 > (I am a Naim person). I play DVD-V portion of some DVD-A discs on it, > and they sound great! > > Sorry for so many questions. I am very excited about being able to > hear my hires collection in my server system, and it sounds better than > ever!
Almost all DVDA have DVDV on them. They do not have to be two sided. Some DVDA players have to be forced into playing the DVDV layer. Try any of your DVDA's in a straight DVD player on a 5.1 system and that's exactly how they will sound on the transporter into a 5.1. system. The ones you ripped as 5.1 probably converted to a 5.1 Flac that the Transporter will refuse to play. As far as the Transporter is concerned they look like 2 Channels. Which is exactly how they come out of your TosLink/SPDIF of a DVD player (over 2 channels compressed/encoded). The 5.1 DTS will be 48Khz 5.1 after decoding. Some DVDA have 2 channel 24/96 that is not MLP (straight PCM). Those can be ripped too and be played as 24/96. You will not get 5.1 24/96 lossless or lossy out of a Transporter from DVDA. See the wiki http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Play_DVD_Tracks It's a bit of workl but well worth it. I sold off my DVDA player and still buy DVDA's now and then. You should ask further questions in the ripper formum. There may be easier tools around that do it soup to nuts but I don't believe so. You can use many DVD rippers but the trick is to wrap the raw DTS bitstream in a wav file. Which there is a python script for doing. Then once you have the wav you can still lossless compress it to flac and then tag it (I use MusicBrainz). I've heard really good comments on the F80 but with DSP5000's selling at half the price used compared to F80 I keep buying DSP5000's. I have 3 Systems with DSP5000's in them. I'll eventually get an F80. -- mswlogo XP > Cat5 > Transporter > SPDIF > Meridian G68 > DSP6000, DSP5500HC, DSP5000 XP > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF > Meridian DSP5000 XP > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF > Meridian G91 > DSP5000 'My Transporter Setup' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=350741&postcount=45) 'Hitch Hikers Guide to Meridian' (http://www.meridianunplugged.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55987 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
