eldebil Wrote: > My test was the following: > software : > ---16 mn of "Faithless - Live at Alexendra Palace" (DTS half rate ) > ... > I wonder if the fact that it's half-bitrate is what's making it successful. My conversion utility pads DTS to a certain fixed size per frame, so a half-bitrate source file will contain more padding than a full-bitrate source and should therefore compress better with FLAC.
When I look at the bitrate of one of my converted DTS files through SlimServer, I see "1535kbps CBR" -- a 48kHz WAV file is 1536 kb/s (that's kiloBITS per second) so that's just about as poor a compression as you can get. OTOH one of my AC3-FLAC files has a bitrate of about one third of that. If your Faithless track sounds fine, could you check the FLAC bitrate? I bet it's a fair amount lower than 1536 kb/s. If so, that seems to confirm my hypothesis that it's poor FLAC compression which is causing jerky playback. (OT: I borrowed that DVD last week and could have done my own test if I hadn't just given it back!) Thanks, Steve -- smst ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19260 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
