I'd also like to see an option to output AC3/DTS untouched via spdif and still be able to use BASS player to play stereo audio. BASS gives you far more options than spdif, like visualizations and crossfading, but I can then only get two channel audio to my receiver. Would it be possible to have an option like "Use directshow for following formats:"?
1) Since not all of my music is DTS (most if it is actually stereo - FLAC, MP4, MP3), is there a way to enjoy both stereo and multichannel (DTS/AC3) music in a single-setup of MediaPortal? I currently use the BASS engine and enjoy the "crossfade" feature very much, and would like to keep using it for stereo files... Is there a way to make some kind of "conditional rendering" for the music player? i.e. use ASIO/Passthrough for AC3/DTS and BASS for other formats?
2) Since I haven't played with it for a few years, what's the best way to add tags to AC3/DTS files? Can MPTagThat do it?
How about embedding ac3 and dts in matroska? So instead of Audio+Video (mkv), it would be an audio-only-file (*.mka).In fact there is no Tagging support for AC3/DTS.
I could relatively easily implement it into MPTagThat in form of a ID3 V1 or Ape Tag, which resides at the end of file, but it might cause problems.
How about embedding ac3 and dts in matroska? So instead of Audio+Video (mkv), it would be an audio-only-file (*.mka).
I am not sure if bass is able to split/open the mka files (without the need of haali) or how this could work.
Also there is question, does taglib# supports reading mka metadata? Could it be added? Same goes for writing.
So even if this use case (using mka) is not very common atm, I think it would be a good way to handle those things.