Can't burn Dolby Digital wav! Only if I ...

[Novalis]

very weird

I tried again to burn a Dolby Digital 5.1 audio CD (Guano Apes) with NERO and the wavs generated by the programm. Originally this was a ccd-image.

First attempt failed -> only noise from DVD-Player

Second attempt: I placed a totally different DTS-wav from a different album (Sting) at the first position of my DD-CD. Burned it, put in DVD player.

I can listen to all tracks

My receiver switches for the first track to DTS and plays the song. After that it switches to DD and plays the complete album it refused to do before.

Whats going on here? and how can I burn the CD correctly without the DTS wav? Why doesn't the receiver recognize the CD if I burn it only with the DD wavs?

thx
Novalis

[S_O]

I have a similar problem, I can play DTS-CDs without any problem, but Dolby-Digital doesn´t work. In a normal CD-player, connected to the same receiver the cd plays fine. My dvd-players (Mustek) seem to have problems with dolby-digital-cds. I don´t know why.

[DIggedy]

It might even be your reciever that refuses to accept the DD wavs... I have the same problem on all 3 of my DVD players so I'm assuming its the reciever.

[S_O]

But the receiver can handle Dolby-Digital over S/PDIF perfect?
The DD-Wav is nothing else than the signal how it is outputed to S/PDIF.
So if your receiver handles normal S/PDIF-ac3 correctly it should handle DD-Wavs also correctly, because for the receiver it´s no difference.
You can proof that very simple, connect in GraphEdit a wav-dest and a file-writer to AC3-Filter, enable S/PDIF in AC3-Filter and play the graph. You´ll see, that your output wav is a dd-wav. You can´not burn it to CD, because the format-tag is 0x92, not 0x01 for PCM, to tell the soundcard: do not output this signal analog to speakers and do not change it (volume etc.), it´s a digital data stream. You can change that format-tag in a hexeditor to 0x01 and burn it on CD. If that wav (with 0x92) plays fine on your PC over S/PDIF out and the same signal burned to CD doesn´t, your CD/DVD-Player damages the signal.