From time to time people have concerns with DTS-encoded audio files. One way you could permanently get around this is just to convert the files to 6-channel format, either WAV (silly) or FLAC (the better thing to do). Then they would just be 6-channel PCM, instead of encoded, which has the potential for issues, like the one you're seeing now.
Is your complaint about what you see on screen (the words Channels: 2) or the sound that's reaching your ears? Do you claim to be hearing 2-channel audio instead of 6-channel audio?
This is an important distinction. They're two different problems.
Both of your screenshots show, in the Audio Path display, that MC is recognizing and playing the files, both "Hells Bells" and "Fire Fire", as 6-channel. Look at the audio path: Output= "6ch using WASAPI". That is definitive.
That area on the left, where you see "Canali: 2" is showing tags.
What you might not realize is that the files actually ARE 2 channel files. DTS is an encoding mechanism; it encodes 5.1 audio within a 2-channel stream, so that the stream can be sent over TOSLINK or S/PDIF interfaces. The data that is sent (and stored in the file) is 2-channel data. Only in the decoder is it decoded and expanded to 5 channels. So to say a 5.1 DTS file is a 2-channel file is technically correct.
I don't know why MC is interpreting the physical layout of the files differently in the tag window. Something tricky about particular files. Maybe MC could "fix" it if you sent them the files, maybe not. Physically they are 2 channel files, and logically they are 6 channels files. Only value can be displayed in the tags, so which one should be? The important thing is: is MC playing the music correctly?
MC says it is playing the files as 6-channel. So do you hear 6-channel or 2-channel?
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Topic: DTS or AC3 audio files not recognized and played in PCM (Read 1097 times)