You can rip DTS or AC3 (Dolby Digital) from DVD disc. You can also wrap them into WAV container. Having this you can convert this WAV to FLAC (for tagging as there won't be any compression gain).
This will work with SqueezeBox Touch because DTS and AC3 are lossy formats with 1.5 MBit/s bandwidth - which is an upper limit for S/PDIF (Coax or Optical). Therefore the maximum 5.1 quality for SqueezeBox Touch to pass to AV Receiver via S/PDIF is DTS 96/24 - still lossy format, still 1.5 MBit/s. For real lossless 5.1 FLAC's - DVD-Audio rip or HD downloads - you are limited by S/PDIF connecttion. Cannot pass this to AV receiver - SqueezeBox would need HDMI output to achieve this. The only way to pass it to AV receiver would be USB. I don't think there are AV Receivers with USB input capable of decoding 5.1 FLAC's. Here comes Oppo BD-83 - it is DLNA capable. So I can imagine passing 5.1 FLAC via Ethernet to Oppo. What about ripping Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD and "play" them via Oppo ? The only thing we need is decent software. Here we are SqueezeBox Server. If it would only recognize an Oppo as a player. Now I have SqueezeBox Receiver connected via Benchmark DAC-1 to stereo amplifier. I hate I need to downsample my HD music to 24/48 (playing from NAS). So SqueezeBox Touch will solve my problems. Perfect solution for Stereo (which is 80% I listen to). However for Multichannel I would love the Oppo BD-83 Special Edition to be recognized as a player - this would make a complete solution for me :) -- KarolG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KarolG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33616 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76529 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
