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Old 4th May 2010, 03:18   #6  |  Link
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Originally Posted by Ditto666 View Post
I understand how there can't be an official way of doing it, but since there is nothing holding the channels together (unless there's some purposely added encrypting data doing so), it's way too surprising that not a single programmer has been able to find a way to at least simply replace one specific channel/add one, if the LFE channel doesn't exist for instance... It seems like it would be simple. I'm trying to really think, but I can't see what could be in the way of making that possible.
I guess, most of the "highly-skilled programmers" don't feel like playing around with the DTS compression, not only because *DTS, Inc* themselves are not "open-source friendly" (to say the least), but also because the so-called "Coherent Acoustics" is terribly inefficient. Just for comparison purposes, stereo MP3 reaches "transparency" at 256kbps, and MP2 does the same at 320kbps, whereas stereo DTS needs "only" 576kbps for "getting there"...

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