New version "What to do with DTS files" guide !

[Eye of Horus]

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[BoNz1]

EoH, thanks for the guide. I have a question though, when I right click on the intervideo audio decoder and try to select 6 speaker mode they are all greyed out and it will not let me change it from 2ch. Now I don't have to have a 5.1 soundcard and speakers to do this do I? I see other people with just 2ch setups doing this why can't it work on mine? I have seen other people with this problem too and I wonder if there is a solution for it, both of my computers have this problem. Thanks in advance.

[BoNz1]

I thought I might update you on this problem, I upgraded to windvd 5 platinum and now it seems to work properly, thanks for your time. :)

[Trimegisto]

The link to your guide is not working :(

Any new URL?

Thanks!

[planet1]

Well that guide is pretty redundant now,

for a while it was the only way to transcode DTS-WAV by using the "complicated" GraphEdit. Beside that its wav2wav6 tool wasnt working correctly
(I think there were some quality and channel mapping issues).

But DSPguru fixed his BeSplit (0.9beta7), so you can use it to create a DTS (.dts) file from DTS-WAV (.wav) (thats not transcoding - just some container extraction).

After you got a .dts file now you can transcode it via azidts or VideoLAN.

Personally i wouldnt pick azidts if you want to preserve the 44.1kHz since azidts (actually the Intervideo DShow filter) always upsamples to 48kHz.

VideoLAN can only create a 6channel wav, so you need to split that into 6 mono wavs by yourself.
That isnt such a big deal - but finding out which channel is which is the hard part.
So i hope that either VideoLAN gets a 6 mono wave output mode, or at least some tool which can do the splitting and channel mapping right.

[Umma]

Uh, this is the old thread. The guide has since been updated to the thread that is a sticky at the top of this forum. Here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=60137)

I would also expect that any new guide that comes out, soon or not, will address the newer ways of doing things...the VideoLan prog is still very new with dts. Sounds good on my computer, too! :)

[Trimegisto]

Well, thank you Planet1.

But, I do want to change the sampling rate to 48kHz in order to use the DTS AUDIO .wav file as a audio track in a MPEG2 DVD compliant video file.

I want to listen to all of my DTS AUDIO CDs in my standalone DVD player so I need to convert them to DVD compliant DTS audio tracks.

You replied to xastlin in another thread that this is not the way to go.I fail to see why.

I don't want to listen to DTS AUDIO on my PC but on my home cinema system. So, it seems only logical that instead of having 6 ot 7 CDs
I can have only one DVD. Saves me some space and provides a common interface to a lot of good music.

So, if I followed these threads correctly, all I have to do is use BeSplit 0.9beta7 to create a .dts from my .wav them transcode it with azidts.

And I'll get a .dts file with the necessary 48kHz sampling rate, ready to feed DVDLab.

Did I make myself clear?

Any ideas?

Thank you!

[Trimegisto]

As I said in the other thread, I'm getting lots of crashes from azidts. Any help?

An example maybe?

Thank you.

[planet1]

well,

nobody said you couldnt go from dts-wav to dts on DVD(@48kHz).
But resampling + !!!recompressing!!! just to fit some standard, wouldnt be everyones choice.
So a better solution to get your DTS-CD material onto DVD might be by creating a DVD-Audio (someday).
DVD-Audio allows 44.1kHz sampling rates so you wouldnt need to recompress and resample the material - just decoding it to PCM.

e.g. would you recompress and resample a MP3 (44.1kHz, 224 kb/s) - to
MP3 (48kHz, 128 kb/s) ??? i guess not - though the result would still "sound" pretty much OK.

But that is everyones INDIVIDUAL DECISION.


Regarding that strange "azidts crash" - post your logs please.
What iviaudio.ax version are you using (pre 5.0.xxxx might have problems) ??

bye

[Trimegisto]

Can you help me a bit more? On just one thread maybe?

Ok, the other one if you please.

Thanks!