Re: [slim] 5.1 flac issues

2011-06-24 Thread bits
Note to anyone else that stumbles in here. Not only should you disable volume control also make sure to disable crossfade or you'll ended up with static junk at track changes :) -- bits bits's Profile:

Re: [slim] 5.1 flac issues

2011-06-19 Thread Mnyb
bits;637041 Wrote: yea got it working. It seems silly you need to jam the ac3 and dts data into another container that wasn't intended to have that data. Why cant the squeezeboxes just stream dts and ac3 straight through? :P is there a file format for dd or dts ? A squeezebox does not

Re: [slim] 5.1 flac issues

2011-06-18 Thread Mnyb
No and no and no. Btw spdiff can not carry 5.1 pcm in any aplication its not in the standard it does not exist . an adition to the standard is that spdiff can carry lossy bitstreams if 5.1 for home cinema but it is AC3 dolby digital or DTS , but that is not lossles discrete pcm channels .

Re: [slim] 5.1 flac issues

2011-06-18 Thread bits
yea been reading the spdif python script stuff. Just getting through the ac3/dts rips now, I had originally ripped the MLP sources. I forgot you cant do 5.1 PCM over spdif, everything else is connected by HDMI these days :) -- bits

Re: [slim] 5.1 flac issues

2011-06-18 Thread ajkidle
I've tackled this in the past, and I recall it not being as easy as I'd hoped. But frankly, as I think about I think it was my ripper that was the problem. DVDAudioExtractor ended up going the job very well, combined with the Python script. There are threads on this topic elsewhere in the

Re: [slim] 5.1 flac issues

2011-06-18 Thread bits
yea got it working. It seems silly you need to jam the ac3 and dts data into another container that wasn't intended to have that data. Why cant the squeezeboxes just stream dts and ac3 straight through? :P -- bits