Handling DTS / AC3 Music Files

[phunqe]

I don't know if anybody cares about this anylonger, but the BASS player still can't play .dts audio files.

It would seem like an easy job just to feed it to AC3Filter or just pass it through to S/PDIF?

[hwahrmann]

go for it if it is so easy. :-)
the previous post explains how to do it with ASIO.
That's the solution that we have currently.

[trevor]

Originally Posted by phunqe

I don't know if anybody cares about this anylonger, but the BASS player still can't play .dts audio files.

It would seem like an easy job just to feed it to AC3Filter or just pass it through to S/PDIF?

It is still working for me, have collected a fair amout of .DTS audio since that last post and bar a couple odd downloaded albums everything plays fine.

You dont say much about the setup you have, do just want to pass the .dts stream directly to you amp for decoding?

Trevor

[phunqe]

Thank for the answer, I missed your last post about it working, but I still don't understand how? You don't mention anything how you made it work.

There is a link in this thread to http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/ba...-t13552p8.html but that only covers DTS in WAV format as far as I can tell (and a reference back to this thread).

Did you just add .dts as a music extension, used ASIO and then played them? If I do that and try to play .dts files I sometimes get a small click out of my receiver, but nothing more. The file doesn't start playing.

My setup is:

MediaPortal Version: MediaPortal-svn--07-20-2007--00-59-Rev15263
MediaPortal Skin: ReVision 1.1.3
Windows Version: Windows XP Professional SP2
CPU Type: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz
Memory: Corsair Dominator TWIN2X6400C4D 2048MB
Motherboard: Asus P5B-VM DO, Q965, Socket-775, m-ATX,
Motherboard Chipset: Q965
Video Card: Gainward SilentFX 8600GT
Sound Card: Auzen X-Meridian 7.1
Sound Card Driver: 5.12.1.8

Also note this issue http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/1_...8.html?t=25768 I have with playing DTS audio CDs (mounted through daemon tools).

[phunqe]

...and yes, the volume is set to 100

[phunqe]

Originally Posted by trevor

do just want to pass the .dts stream directly to you amp for decoding?

Well i dont' see the point in decoding it if I have a DTS receiver? I just want the music to passthrough. As the thread I linked to above suggest that it works for my DTS Audio CDs, but I have issues with noise in the beginning of each track.
Playing .dts files doesn't work at all however.

[trevor]

Originally Posted by phunqe

Well i dont' see the point in decoding it if I have a DTS receiver? I just want the music to passthrough. As the thread I linked to above suggest that it works for my DTS Audio CDs, but I have issues with noise in the beginning of each track.
Playing .dts files doesn't work at all however.

I have DTS audio in both with both .wav and .dts extentions, though I dont think the extention matters much. I did just add .dts to the file types and made sure I had nothing modifing the stream, my sound card is setup for an output sample rate of 44.1Khz (from what I understand if you sound card cant do this then DTS will never work).

Did not say much about as there really was not much to it, I first proved the DTS audio could be played outside MP, using foobar2000 if I remember correctly - this proved the system was cabable of passing through a DTS stream.

Never had problems with the file not playing, always played but when not working I just got white noise out the amp. I do sometimes get the 1-4s of white noise on some files before decoding kicks in, so things are not perfect.

Just checked my settings

MP Music Setup

BASS engine
Default Sound Device
Output level 100
Fade-in on Start/fade-out on stop ticked

ASIOALL v2.8 beta 2

Buffer size 512 sample
Latencey Comp 32 for both
AC97 troubleshooting - Always Resample 44.1KHz <-> 48KHz ticked (seems odd that)

Trevor

[phunqe]

Trevor,

thanks a bunch for your reply. Your settings are the same as mine, but I use Auzen's own ASIO drivers. I tried ASIO4ALL a while back, but it made my system unstable somehow. I'll try with a new version again.

By the way, if I install latest foobar2000 and the s/pdif passthrough plug-in it works perfectly. Unfortunately this plug'in isn't available for the version MP supports as plug-in (it can read the files, but it decodes them, no passthough mode).

[trevor]

Originally Posted by phunqe

Trevor,

By the way, if I install latest foobar2000 and the s/pdif passthrough plug-in it works perfectly. Unfortunately this plug'in isn't available for the version MP supports as plug-in (it can read the files, but it decodes them, no passthough mode).

Well that as least narrows it down to an MP issue, I will have a more in depth check when I get home, I seem to remember I had problems to start with and I adjusted the number AISO buffer samples, cant remember what to though..448 or 441 comes to mind...it all stated working but set it back to 512 and it continued to.....so may well have been nothing to do with it.

Trevor

[Koudijs]

@phunqe
If you can provide me one of your .dts files I will test if it works for me.

Regards,
Jan