DTS not working...

[Moopy]

I've looked around and tried a lot of things, but I can't seem to get DTS to encode to any other format right I would prefer to get it to FLAC, which I can't seem to do without compromising quality, if at all. It's 48kHz, 6 channel, 1509 kbps. The best I can do is to get it to wav but it won't go from there to anything else. I ripped it from DVD using DVD Audio Extractor. I've tried just about everything the forum has suggested to no avail, and am wondering if I'm doing anything wrong? I'm providing a sample song to play around with and check... tell me what you find.

Rapidshare: Bjork - Sun In My Mouth (http://rapidshare.com/files/33883673/Bjoerk_-_Sun_In_My_Mouth.dts)

[tebasuna51]

Seems broken. Pops and clicks, low frequency gaps at central channel, ...

Try another extract method.

[Moopy]

Ok thanks, I'll get back if it doesn't work after that, thanks.

[Austin Forgotten]

You can decode to multichannel wav, then compress with a premiere lossless multichannel wav compressor Wavpack to .wv format (Forget about flac, monkey and all those others). I will be converting my DVD-Audio disks (mlp 96/24) to .wv. If you have a fast computer you can compress to a smaller size than .mlp using the extra setting (> 2), it make still take awhile however, but it plays back effortlessly (well maybe not on a pocket pc). I see Wavpack is the future, too bad you can't mux wavpack with video to dvd for playback, or if Home Theatre players could playback multichannel .wv files like .mp3's. If they did I would snap one up right away. If you could do this, it would blow away DTS-HD, MLP and Dloby True HD!. Did I mention the encoder and decoder are FREE!!

Austin Forgotten

[Arite]

As tebasuna51 said it seems like a badly extracted file - seems to be quite a few pops and click in the file. Other than that the file seems fine.

I would first try extracting it again - for example, use the DVD Decrypter's IFO "Stream Processing" feature to demux the DVD audio to an individual *.dts file. That should then give a better extraction output without the pops and clicks.

The *.dts file can then be converted to a multichannel WAVE file, or any other multichannel format (such as WavePack, FLAC, Vorbis). This can be done in foobar2000 (requires foo_dts.dll).

It can also be done in VLC media player using the "Stream/save" option (Stream output). This layout works (tested on your *.dts file):

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/146/vlcdtswavouttr4.th.png (http://img70.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vlcdtswavouttr4.png)

EDIT: That should output a compatible multichannel WAVE file - can then be converted to the format of your choice.

EDIT2: Actually, I take back what I said about it being a badly extracted file - the "pops and clicks" are actually part of the song by Björk :).