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oddball
24th September 2002, 16:54
To listen to the new Windows Media 5.1 audio you need a 5.1 soundcard surround sound system. That leaves anyone with a 5.1 Dolby Digital/DTS surround sound system (Sent via SPDIF) out of the equation. Frankly I think that's rather stinky.

Is there any way to convert those streams into AC3 or DTS? All that would be needed is the 6 seperate streams in WAV file format which could then be encoded in Sonic Foundry or Surcode.

M$ have just released a 188 meg download of Peter Gabriel's latest album 'Up' in 5.1 WMA format. But methinks it's got DRM written all over it.

JohnMK
26th September 2002, 11:02
Heh. DRM is the least of my concerns. I'm sure a way can be found around it. Most important to me is that the WMA codec is just trash, at any bitrate. I'd much rather use vorbis for 5.1 channel playback.