Playing 5.1 channel Ogg Vorbis files

[Strange_enough]

Hey,

I was wondering if its possible to play 5.1 ogg files through SPDIF (digital output). I have a few audio files and they are in 5.1 ogg format. Media Player and Winamp play these files fine but down samples them to stereo PCM format. AC3 and DTS files play fine without any problems. I use AC3 filter as my main audio decoding filter set.

Also if its not possible to play ogg 5.1 through SPDIF, is there any way to convert these files into DTS Wav? I could convert them to 448kbps AC3 5.1 ch but the quality is heavily compromised.

Would appreciate help.

Zee

[nurbs]

You might want to read the rules (http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm), especially number 6.

[Strange_enough]

Thanks Nurbs. I'll edit the post. But would appreciate if anyone can guide me how to play the files

[tebasuna51]

I was wondering if its possible to play 5.1 ogg files through SPDIF (digital output). I have a few audio files and they are in 5.1 ogg format. Media Player and Winamp play these files fine but down samples them to stereo PCM format. AC3 and DTS files play fine without any problems. I use AC3 filter as my main audio decoding filter set.

Also if its not possible to play ogg 5.1 through SPDIF, is there any way to convert these files into DTS Wav? I could convert them to 448kbps AC3 5.1 ch but the quality is heavily compromised.


Only AC3, DTS and PCM 2.0 can be passed by SPDIF, then other multichannel formats must be recoded on the fly to AC3 or downmix to PCM 2.0 .

Don't exist a way to recode on the fly to DTS.

BTW the ac3 448 kb/s quality is very similar to DTS 1536 kb/s. And if you use ac3 640 Kb/s you have a little more quality than dts 1536.

[Strange_enough]

Thanks Tebasuna.

[Blue_MiSfit]

You can use AC3Filter to transcode your Vorbis audio (or any source actually) to 640kbps AC3 on the fly for S/PDIF transport.

~MiSfit

[Strange_enough]

Pardon me for asking but what exactly does "on the fly" mean?

[kypec]

Pardon me for asking but what exactly does "on the fly" mean?
On-the-fly terminology here means that source audio stream (Vorbis in your case) is decoded and re-encoded immediately (to Dolby AC3 in your case) without any interim phase. No temporary file is created, nothing. Input data are just transformed to output data in another audio format and sent directly to S/PDIF connector during normal playback of your audio/video clip.