RE: [SurroundSound] DTS-HD player on PC

There was a DTSHD plugin for foobar, but I don’t think it is working reliably yet because it is still in development. I heard about it from an earlier message on surroundsound. I downloaded the plug-in, but didn’t have much success getting it to play anything. I’m not too interested in playing DTSHD because I prefer converting to FLAC and getting all the advantages of metadata. Converting to FLAC will still retain the original quality of a high resolution DTSHD file.

 

You can use several tools to convert the DTSHD into FLAC. Try looking into some of the programs that provide a graphical user interface for EAC3to. I’ve been happy with ‘Another EAC3to GUI’ and HdBrStream Extractor. To convert DTSHD to FLAC you will need a DTSHD decoder, which comes with ArcSoft’s TotalMedia Theater or (I assume) PowerDVD.

 

Once you convert the audio to FLAC and merge the audio and video into an MKV file, you can play these with several players, including VLC. I prefer using Windows 7 Media Center or Media Player Classic – Home Cinema (MPC-HC). Obviously, if the audio is FLAC, you can play it with almost any player on your PC.

 

There are quite a few discussions and how-to guides on the web about ripping, converting and playing Blu-ray and MKV files, like these:

 

Ripping Blu-ray –

Another EAC3to GUI Plus Updated 5-31-2010

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1255699#post1255699

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=145140

http://www.htpc-central.com/p/blu-ray-ripping-guide.html

 

Converting to MKV –

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1033822

http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2010/03/29/mkv-mania-another-eac3to-gui/#comment-9445

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvmerge-gui.html#whatismkvmerge

http://ribolabs.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/guide-for-re-encoding-blu-ray-to-x264-mkv-megui/

 

Playing Blu-ray & MKV –

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=18653867#post18653867

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=19369109#post19369109

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=19310834#post19310834

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1283497

 

 

 

 

From: surroundsound@googlegroups.com [mailto:surroundsound@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jack Dawson Sparrow
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 1:54 PM
To: SurroundSound@googlegroups.com
Subject: [SurroundSound] DTS-HD player on PC

 

There is a DTS-HD player on PC? I've managed to get some musics in .dtshd format, and figured out that I've been able to play it on VLC player, but soon I realized that probably I'm only playing the DTS portion of the music (the DTS HD has two streams, one with a normal DTS and other with the high-res portion) and I don't know if I'm playing it downsampled or not.

 

PowerDVD 10 has the option to play DTS-HD only in selected cards (Creative X-Fi isn't among them).

 

I can't imagine why I can't play DTs-HD via software decoding....

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