Any thoughts?
If it's important, I'm asking for this because I rip surround and high-resolution stereo mixes mostly from DVD's, some of the latter being encoded either in AC3 or DTS—usually the latter. I've run in to a weird problem with some of these rips: For whatever reason, MC reports them to have a bit depth of 32 bits whereas MediaInfo claims 16. I rip them losslessly, muxing them in to MKA containers via MakeMKV and MKVToolNix. I don't know which one is reporting accurately but it doesn't really matter either way because they won't play through my A/V receiver: a Pioneer VSX-LX101. Play-back initiation simply causes a short hang before it gives up, skips to the next track, and repeats the cycle. It's strange to me that said A/V receiver would not simply down-mix the 32-bit content to the 24-bit that it supports. Ultimately, it doesn't, so I began to look at possible remedies.
I tried down-mixing the files to a lower bit depth via eac3to but this produced the same results. One would think, based on this, that the issue isn't the bit depth; nevertheless, the problem only persists with 32-bit files. Everything else 24-bit and below plays just fine.
I subsequently found that I can remedy this issue by configuring the DLNA options seen in the OP attachment so that the files in question stream to the A/V receiver as PCM/WAV 24-bit. I don't want to convert them to a lossless or lossy format all-together because of, respectively, the bloated space foot print and the potential loss of quality. Applying this process to AC3 files worked just fine but there is no DTS option to choose, meaning that it will not work. I don't want to apply this to every file I own; there are plenty of files it does play just fine.
What say you?