Hi all,
A little while ago I wrote a utility to help me play AC3/DTS files
through the SqueezeBox2. I've finally found the time to write some
documentation on it, so I now present it as part of a guide to playing
multi-channel audio sourced from DVD.
I'll be happy to answer any questions about this and generally help to
get it going, but bear in mind that I'll be slow at responding for the
next two or three weeks.
- Introduction
- Requirements
- Dolby Digital (AC3)
- Ripping
- Converting
- Configuring SlimServer
- Playback
- DTS
- To Do
_introduction_
Multichannel audio on a DVD-Video uses the formats Dolby Digital
(henceforth called AC3) and DTS, with a frequency of 48000Hz (compared
to CDs which use 44100Hz). The SB2 is capable of playing these formats
by passing a slightly modified form of the digital data through to a
suitable receiver. I'll explain here how to get that working.
You can of course use this information to play back extracts from a
film's audio track, but it's more likely that you'll want to play back
an album which has been remixed to 6 channels. Many DVD-Audio discs
are released with a DVD-Video layer which is recognised by normal DVD
players, with the audio encoded as AC3 or DTS. The fidelity is not as
high as the DVD-Audio layer, but certainly suffices for most of us.
This guide DOES NOT cover ripping of the DVD-Audio layer; I have no
idea how to go about that, or if it's even possible.
_requirements_
You'll need a SqueezeBox2 or SqueezeBox3 (I'll refer to them both as
SB2), with a digital connection to a receiver which can decode Dolby
Digital. (We don't do any decoding ourselves; we simply pass the
encoded data through to the receiver for decoding.) SB1 is not
supported, although it could be with a small amount of work (more
later). SLIMP3 is not supported.
-Continued in next post...-
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