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Title: 5.1 DTS says it's 2ch
Post by: Stream_HD on September 04, 2013, 08:35:37 pm

Hi all,

Brand new owner and loving this product so far.  I have already know the difference between bitstream and letting the PC decode the DTS signal etc.  My question is, I have all DSP turned off but when I play a Blu Ray (avatar) the audio path says:

INPUT:  48KHZ 16bit 2ch from source format DTS

CHANGES: No changes are being made

OUTPUT:  48KHZ 16bit 2ch using WASAPI (bitstreaming)

My question is, why does it say 2ch, when in fact it's 5.1 and I can clearly hear and see it's doing 5.1 on my Meridian 861?  I do not have HDMI on my unit so not interested in sending already decoded (unbitstreamed) audio to the 861, I just would like to know if this is normal behavior to say 2ch when in fact it's 5.1?

Thanks!

Title: Re: 5.1 DTS says it's 2ch
Post by: Matt on September 04, 2013, 09:25:45 pm

Welcome.

To the computer, it is 2 channel audio.  This is because the DTS bits are packed into something that looks like 2 channel PCM (but would sound like noise if you played it as PCM).

If you decode instead of bitstream, it will report the expected number of PCM channels.

Title: Re: 5.1 DTS says it's 2ch
Post by: Stream_HD on September 04, 2013, 09:50:07 pm

Thanks so much for the fast response.  So far all is working great!

Is 3D playback something that will become available?  I noticed my Avatar 3D won't playback in 3D.

Thanks again!  I am sure I will have more questions later :).

Title: Re: 5.1 DTS says it's 2ch
Post by: Matt on September 04, 2013, 10:11:20 pm

Quote from: Stream_HD on September 04, 2013, 09:50:07 pm

Is 3D playback something that will become available?  I noticed my Avatar 3D won't playback in 3D.

Unfortunately not soon.  There are a bunch of icky technical limitations.

However, side-by-side playback should work.  That's how I watched Avatar 3d in MC on my projector -- although it was the first and basically only time I used the 3d.

Title: Re: 5.1 DTS says it's 2ch
Post by: Stream_HD on September 05, 2013, 10:51:22 am

Thanks Matt,

It's really not that big of deal.  I can watch 3D using my Blu Ray player or another app for this, since there really isn't that many of them anyway.

One more question that I just can't seem to get resolved on my DTS issue, but dealing with music.

I have my favorite CD ever that is encoded with 5.1 DTS.  However, when I play it I only get white noise no matter what I do.  Keep in mind that I do not have the option to use the decoders in JRiver at the moment.  Because my processor only takes SPDIF inputs (single ended) and it does not work with multi-channel PCM.  Therefore, it must do the decoding.

So with that in mind, how do I get my DTS 5.1 CD, to bitstream to my processor without any white noise?

Thanks!  Love the product so far!

Title: Re: 5.1 DTS says it's 2ch
Post by: mykillk on September 06, 2013, 09:12:59 pm

I think this thread should get you on the right track:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=69945.0

Title: Re: 5.1 DTS says it's 2ch
Post by: Stream_HD on September 06, 2013, 11:10:17 pm

Thanks for the link.  I tried all those things and still white noise.

The one thing I never seen in that thread was, what he did to the original files?  Meaning, what format are they in on his machine?  I read many threads saying to rip them as WAV files which I did.  Perhaps this is just not the right way to do it?  I wonder if it can read it from an iso file?

I have been trying for two days to figure this out.  Hopefully I can get this resolved, this is about the only remaining problem I have at this point!

Thanks again!

Title: Re: 5.1 DTS says it's 2ch
Post by: Stream_HD on September 06, 2013, 11:25:05 pm

Additionally, when I changed the seting in file types, for DTS Audio to Video Filters as that thread said, it completely stopped my ability to bitstream my movies in DTS.  So I had to undo that setting.