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Rip and proper playback of older DTS-encoded CDs?

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Kong:
For a while DTS ran its own record label (DTS Entertainment) on which they released DTS-encoded surround recordings on CDs. The bitstream from those discs via the Oppo BDP-93 and HDMI is correctly decoded as DTS by my pre-pro, yiledling quite nice mutichannel playback.

Unfortunately, the same discs ripped by MC 17 (which sees the discs as CDs) play back as two-channel hiss, typical of feeding the DTS signals into a plain CD decoder. I know these DTS CDs are rare, but wonder if MC 17 can be taught to recognize the DTS bitstream and rip them properly.

I ask because I see that MC 17 will play the more recent (and nicely lossless) DTS-MA, and that format does contain the original lossy DTS bitstream (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS-HD_Master_Audio).

Matt:
Media Center should support playback of DTS WAV files.  Media Center will decode to PCM not bitstream (just like with all other audio), but since you use HDMI, that shouldn't be an issue.  You may need to use .dts as the file extension.

Kong:
Thanks, but so far it's not working. I went to Options-Video and set bitstreaming to HDMI. I re-ripped a DTS album to uncompressed WAV files. After that still produced noise, I changed the extension on a file to .dts, unfortunately with no good result. Suggestions?

Kong:
OK, it's working now. I'd forgotten that I had all source material up-rezzed to 196/24. Setting all the DSP options back to "Source..." permitted the DTS signals to get through and be properly decoded by the pre-pro. It was not necessary to change the .wav extension to .dts on these files. Thanks!

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