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blgentry:
A little extra info about DVD-A discs:  If you are definitely talking about a DVD-A and NOT a Blu-Ray disc of some sort...

DVD-As usually have a compatibility DVD layer that contains a lossy version of the audio.  Usually Dolby Digital, but it could also be DTS of course.  This is so people without a DVD-A player can still play their DVD-A discs on a normal DVD player.  That's probably what your screen shot above is showing.  There's normally a video stream too, but it tends to just be a screen shot of the album cover or something like that.

I've only ripped a couple of DVD-A discs using DVD Audio Extractor.  I used the Mac version, since my Mac is my everyday computer (I don't use Windows).  On that version, I absolutely had the option to rip the stereo and multi-channel tracks separately.  I remember because the size of the multi-channel tracks was HUGE compared to stereo.

Importantly, as far as I know, DVD-AE is the only program that will actually rip DVD-A audio from a DVD-A disc. 

Brian.

ssands:
I'm way out of my depth on this unfortunately.

The .iso opens into Audio_ts and video_ts folders. The video (as far as I know) is just a couple of static images, nothing more.

DVD-AE will extract .mlp files, or, as I mentioned, stereo flac files. For some reason, it will not allow me to extract multi-channel.
DVD-AE also reports that the music is 6 Channel.

Question: If I want MC to play some files, which do I choose? (vob, bup, or something else altogether)?

syndromeofadown:
It seams you are getting something simple and making it complicated.

Use DVDAE for everything except DTS HDMA for which you should use MC.

Neither DVDAE or MC play or extract from an iso. Unless of course the iso is mounted, and in that case it acts just like a disc inserted into a dvd drive that both programs can read. You can mount an iso with Virtual Clone Drive or similar.

Once mounted use the open disc option in DVDAE. Do not use "open dvd files"

Once mounted play the disc in MC by selecting it in drives and devices.

You can rip, or extract, the iso to a hard disc folder.

Once ripped you can use "open dvd files" in DVDAE or play the Video_ts.ifo in video_ts folder with MC.
Note that the Audio_ts folder contains the DVDAudio data that MC won't play (that's why you extract it)

ssands:
Well, I think I *may* have found the issue.

I mounted the .iso and pointed MC at the mounted drive. MC plays it and displays the static screen images (which I'd rather not see).

I right-clicked, opened the DSP window and MC indicates that the source is two channel.
That contradicts DVD-AE, and I'm wondering if DVD-AE has got it wrong.

syndromeofadown:
MC is playing the contents of the video_ts folder. (the standard dvd content)
DVDAE extracts the audio from the audio_ts folder. (the DVDAudio content)

If MC could play the DVDAudio content there would be no point in extracting it with another program.
mpl is the audio that exists in the audio_ts folder. You need to convert it to flac with DVDAE.

When you open the album with DVDAE it lists the contents of it in the left pane. Perhaps you should post a screen shot of this.

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