Pink Floyd, DTS, Soundstorm and digital receiver...

[mito]

I FUCKING DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soon I'll post results.

 

[mito]

quality is just awesome

 

[mito]

I'm using WAV-DTS samples that were downloaded from a Swedish website. Those are samples from a 5.1 radio station. These wouldn't work with Winamp 5.x nor PowerDVD, no matter how I configured them.

So I found this program: VLC Media Player 0.81. (www.videolan.org)

The first thing I did was to enable the Use SPDIF audio output when available. Wouldn't work. The receiver goes crazy between DTS and Dolby Pro Logic.

http://www.msbnet.com.br/pessoal/veritas/dts.jpg

So I disabled that option and to my surprise the wav-dts samples were played. DTS, 5.1 and awesome quality.

Note: my digital receiver would display "Dolby Digital" instead of "DTS". (it's a Sherwood New Castle R-756)

Note 2: one of those wav-dts samples didn't play... more tests to follow...

Note 3: still have to make those pink floyd flacs play.

 

[mito]

PINK FLOYD! I did it again!

Use Flac Frontend and "decode" the flac files.

WAV files are created. Use VLC 0.81.

Pink Floyd 5.1


FUCKING AWESOME!!!

http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/article.asp?section_id=2&article_id=444&pag

 

[mito]

OMG, pink floyd revisited.

DTS rlz!!!!!!!

 

[mito]

VLC's log as it played the wav-dts files.

http://www.msbnet.com.br/pessoal/veritas/messages3.txt

Comments are very welcomed.

 

[mito]

Lots of tests...

DTS is awesome!

http://www.sr.se/multikanal/english/e_index.stm

 

[pcchen]

To my understanding, some audio cards can only output 48kHz without any alteration (through SPDIF bypass). So DTS CD is a no go for them, since DTS CD uses 44.1kHz signal.
Basically, any processing to the signal will destroy DTS or AC3 signal.
A possible way to output DTS CD through a 48kHz SPDIF is to insert some blanks in between. I don't know whether it works or not, though.

 

[mito]

Weird thing just happened. I've got Jethro Tull's Aqualung in DTS.

I used PowerDVD to play the file. It works. My receiver automatically switches to DTS.

However, the music is fast paced...

If I configure PowerDVD audio to "2 channel" or "4 channel", then the pace is normal. (The receiver switches to DD though, still 4 channels I hear).

What's wrong with DTS? The file is supposed to be DTS....

 

[mito]

correction: with PowerDVD the dts file is played a bit faster and with a higher pitch.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91848&highlight=DTS+powerdvd

 

[Reznor007]

DTS CD's are 44.1KHz, but Soundstorm resamples everything to 48KHz, so it gets sped-up. I'm surprised it works at all though.

DTS DVD's are 48KHz, so they get passed properly.

 

[mito]

DTS CD's are 44.1KHz, but Soundstorm resamples everything to 48KHz, so it gets sped-up. I'm surprised it works at all though.

DTS DVD's are 48KHz, so they get passed properly.

Why is foobar2000 playing the DTS?

 

[Reznor007]

DTS CD's are 44.1KHz, but Soundstorm resamples everything to 48KHz, so it gets sped-up. I'm surprised it works at all though.

DTS DVD's are 48KHz, so they get passed properly.

Why is foobar2000 playing the DTS?

If it sounds right in Foobar it might have its own internal decoder and is not sending it through to your receiver.