Anyone interested in dolby heaphone encoding?

[E-Male]

As far as i see there is no way to convert 5.1 or dolby surround files to a dolby headphone file, just players that do it on the fly and output it to your speakers (or rather headphone).

I postet about this subject twice and no-one replied, so i make this thread basicly to ask if anyone except me is even interested in that, so just reply if you are

Please also add if you know something that might help getting this to work, needed skills are:
-knowledge about using dll-files (like the dolbyhph.dll)
-knowledge about ax-files (especially how to crack them so they can be used at full functionallity outside their original software)
-or anything you know about audio that you think could help

hopeing to get some response
CU
E-Male

[amorfeusz]

Hey E-Male,

Well,even though I got it working before, I had to reinstall windows and now whatever I do now that I did before, etc...I can't get the Dolby Headphone option to come back in graphedit..

Can you tell me what version of claud.ax you have and what your registry settings are?

Mine is the 3.5.0.1004 - 208kb 10/4/2001

NEVERMIND!!

Just downloaded the Japanese PowerDVD5Deluxe Trial and it's new filter works perfectly and has many more options - i.e. you can use trusurround xt headphone (even though it's not as good), their new stereo->multichannel and more in GraphEdit.

Only catch is you have to use Cyberlinks own WAV Dest filter.

The english version , was just released today on sharereactor/software - few sources as of yet.

[E-Male]

i had some luckwioth some new filters i treid, with some i had none
will try the new cyberlink stuff :)

[amorfeusz]

Yea, PowerDVD5's filter is very nice - the English full version lets you use any render/output - no tied to the Cyberlink WAV Dest as the trial.

Also, it can decode DTS from the dtssource.ax filter - WinDVD isnt the only filter that can do that now. Though it seemed to have trouble converting it to Dolby Headphone on the fly.

You can take stereo mp3 and putting it through the Audio Effect you can either turn into Dolby Pro Logic II surround,or their very own CLMEI, and then in the same filter encode it into Dolby Headphone Surround or into Dolby Virtual Speaker, etc,etc.

It does sound quite different - whether better or worse will depend on the song and listener :D

Also listened to some Ambisonics encoded stuff through Dolby Headphone, sounds nice too. Still have to compare it to original stereo source though.

When I have a chance I'm going to see which one of these, if any, works best for music played on regular car stereo (4 speakers) - not the new true surround ones..