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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1064808" data-attributes="member: 109222">You're welcome.Personally I don't like codec packs. This packs are installing tons of unnecessary things. If you use Win7 (or 8) all you need is a MKV splitter and probably (on Win8) a Mpeg2 Codec. Both can be best get by using LAV Filters. A &quot;normal&quot; setup is well prepared with this. That's why MP bundles with LAVF... But some (not that good) hardware can require special codecs under some circumstances. Your Soundbar is not able to playback DTS audio. My (17 years old) AVR is not able to playback 2.0 Stereo if it comes via SP/DIF. That's why I do an upmixing to 5.1 on every 2.0 audio source. For this I have installed AC3 filter (solely without any codec pack) as AC3 Filter has the best options for up/downmixing I know of. And AC3 filter can transcode DTS to Dolby Digital (5.1) or Stereo (2.0) on the fly, what you can use to get your Soundbar working with DTS sources...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1064808, member: 109222"] You're welcome. Personally I don't like codec packs. This packs are installing tons of unnecessary things. If you use Win7 (or 8) all you need is a MKV splitter and probably (on Win8) a Mpeg2 Codec. Both can be best get by using LAV Filters. A "normal" setup is well prepared with this. That's why MP bundles with LAVF... But some (not that good) hardware can require special codecs under some circumstances. Your Soundbar is not able to playback DTS audio. My (17 years old) AVR is not able to playback 2.0 Stereo if it comes via SP/DIF. That's why I do an upmixing to 5.1 on every 2.0 audio source. For this I have installed AC3 filter (solely without any codec pack) as AC3 Filter has the best options for up/downmixing I know of. And AC3 filter can transcode DTS to Dolby Digital (5.1) or Stereo (2.0) on the fly, what you can use to get your Soundbar working with DTS sources... [/QUOTE]

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