[SurroundSound] Re: DTS-HD Master Audio

Foobar with play DTS - HD... More here on the pros and cons:

http://groups.google.com/group/surroundsound/browse_thread/thread/c68a5ead592caac9

On Jan 6, 4:09 am, Joe A <joe.anst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Same here, convert to FLAC.
>
> Blu-Ray really does finally get audio right, it's like combining DVD-A
> with DVD-V in high def.  All three major audio formats used by the
> format are high res and lossless (PCM, Dolby True HD, and DTS-HD
> MA).
>
> I'm not aware of anything on the PC that correctly decodes DTS-HD MA
> (you're kind of forced to output the bitstream to your receiver)
> because of this whole "Protected Audio Path" nonsense with one
> exception.  eac3to can extract the tracks still encoded (as .dtshd
> files) but again as far as I know anything yet that plays it like
> foobar will only see the embedded lossy DTS track.
>
> My method of ripping is to use eac3to with a certain version of Total
> Media Theater (TMT) which has a DTS-HD decoder eac3to can use, that
> has since been modified to only work with TMT and not 3rd party apps.
>
> Regarding 192 on my main machine I have an Asus Xonar DX2 that doesn't
> handle 192 kHz files correctly via ASIO.  I'm debating whether to just
> downsample the few 192kHz things I have to 96 kHz.

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