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still no sound from dts 5.1 channel in wav - LAV problem
ferday:
1. DTS is a container codec, renaming .wav to .dts is unlikely to work. DTS is a lossy compression
2. FLAC is a container codec which support lossless dts 6 channel. It is NOT lossy for 5.1
3. You can also mux to .mka if you don't like FLAC
Hendrik:
Neither FLAC or DTS are containers, they are both audio codecs.
You cannot put DTS in FLAC. If you convert DTS to FLAC, you decode the DTS audio, and then re-encode to FLAC - and there is no trace of DTS left after that.
ferday:
thanks hendrik, my bad, i always mix up container and codec
encoding DTS to flac however does not lose any information, it just loses the ability to bitstream over spdif as flac stores the channels separately. DTS is a lossy compression CODEC which allows bitstreaming multichannel over spdif. my point was that multichannel .flac is NOT lossy, and since one can't bitstream .wav DTS either, there is no loss of either data or functionality by getting rid of those nasty .wav files.
re-reading the OP, he's trying to play DTS over analog, so i'm assuming he means discrete multi-analog...
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--- Quote from: ferday on August 26, 2014, 10:37:21 am ---encoding DTS to flac however does not lose any information, it just loses the ability to bitstream over spdif as flac stores the channels separately. DTS is a lossy compression CODEC which allows bitstreaming multichannel over spdif. my point was that multichannel .flac is NOT lossy, and since one can't bitstream .wav DTS either, there is no loss of either data or functionality by getting rid of those nasty .wav files.
--- End quote ---
Being a lossy codec, DTS audio is stored as floating-point values.
Being a lossless codec, FLAC stores integer fixed-point PCM data.
This is a lossy conversion.
There may not be any audible differences, but it is technically lossy, and depends on the decoder that you are using.
Earlier versions of the Arcsoft DTS decoder would convert DTS tracks to 24-bit PCM rather than 16-bit PCM for example.
If it's literally just DTS audio stored inside a WAV file, I would put it into an MKA container instead.
This keeps the audio in its original format and Media Center doesn't seem to have any problem playing these files.
I have some albums which came with a DVD that included a DTS surround track (but not marked as DTS-WAV) and I converted those all to MKA files.
ferday:
Makes perfect sense, I'd never thought about fixed v floating
Thanks for learning me something today!
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