adhawkins Wrote: > How about ripping the audio from a 'Video' DVD? I have a number of > concerts etc. with 5.1 sound that it'd be great to be able to listen to > via the Squeezebox. This can be done; I've done it successfully with Dolby Digital (AC3) soundtracks, and DTS files are _this_ close.
Basically, you extract an AC3/DTS file from your DVD (lots of DVD ripping software exists -- you just need to separate the data by chapter and demultiplex the 6 channel sound stream into a separate file). You then need to convert the file into a format that's suitable for sending direct to a digital receiver -- that's the tricky bit. (I've written a utility to do that, which I intend to post here fairly soon.) The resultant file is a WAV and sounds like noise over analogue outputs -- but send it over a digital connection and you've got your 5.1 mix. (You can do this via an SB2, and also over a PC's S/PDIF connection.) Beware that audio from a DVD is at 48kHz, and that the SB2 will currently play all WAV files at 44.1kHz. You can get around this by encoding to FLAC (bonus: you get to add metadata), but DTS-FLAC files don't sound right (they compress very poorly and I don't think the decoder can keep up). I can attest that AC3-FLAC files are absolutely fine, however -- I've listened to DD5.1 music through my SB2. (I've written about this in more detail in the '\"DTS file for tests ?\"' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15271) thread of the Audiophiles forum.) -- smst ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18213 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
