ac3 filter vs **** [Archive]

o2xygen

28th March 2005, 21:18

I have a simple question...
Is ac3 filter's audio quality better than the latest version of powerdvd, windvd or cineplayer? if not which one gives the best sound
thanks

bond

28th March 2005, 22:58

decoders always give exactly the same quality

Sycho

29th March 2005, 02:44

Originally posted by bond
decoders always give exactly the same quality Na, Na, The hardware decoder in my Audigy 2 zs sounds like shit, compared to ac3 filter powerdvd ect. I think it can't decouple the AC3 stream correctly.

Rockaria

29th March 2005, 08:08

Originally posted by o2xygen
I have a simple question...
Is ac3 filter's audio quality better than the latest version of powerdvd, windvd or cineplayer? if not which one gives the best sound
thanks

Originally posted by bond
decoders always give exactly the same quality

It depends on the tastes by my findings.

Ac3filter is for ripped music or divx than cd media and has some normalizing/gaining controls in it. Also can be used with other decoder filter.

The dvd players have some EQ presets and are normally for dvd and dts cd.
I am not sure if they can play ripped data.

bond

29th March 2005, 13:13

well of course decoders will not give exactly the same output when they do postprocessing of any sort or are buggy or dont support all features of the format (eg a aac-lc decoder decoding aac-he)

but by default every decoder has to be able to give exactly the same output on the same input

KpeX

29th March 2005, 17:47

We could probably revise bond's original statement to be "all non-broken decoders give exactly the same quality". Technically speaking, if a decoder doesn't support all of AC3's features (DRC, dialog normalization, etc.) it is a broken decoder.