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From: floyd fisher <fisherking3k@gmail.com>
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To: surroundsound@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [SurroundSound] convert flac to mac...
tried vlc, mplayer, audirvana, even XBMC. nada, just...static. but someone is gonna try to convert the files for me, so...will report back when.
On Saturday, January 5, 2013 9:28:49 AM UTC-5, Buster Fidez wrote:
I'd recommend you try downloading VLC to play those files on your Mac ...
On Sunday, January 6, 2013, floyd fisher wrote:lots of comedians here (but very little comedy LOL). disney, that's an amazing setup. but i like things simple; a big hdtv, a roku box (for netflix, vudu, amazon, plex), a macbook pro. i stream movies over wifi to the roku, but plugin a (long, and hidden) hdmi cable to the mac for dvd-A's. that's it (and a sound system of course). more room=more women....and a PPC G5? LOL....they do make great paperweights...--
On Saturday, January 5, 2013 6:46:53 AM UTC-5, bobc...@hotmail.com wrote:I have a PPC G5 but my wife shows absolutely no interest in it - what am I doing wrong?
Stephen Disney <sthunde...@gmail.com> wrote:
My PC runs the video and audio feeds to three rooms in my house (including hdtv when needed and even vhs) with surround sound in all three rooms and 3d to my living room projector. It also runs my Christmas lights nightly from Thanksgiving to New Years. Keyboard and mouse are bluetooth because they live in the living room while the PC lives in the office on the other side of the house. A bluray burner sits next to my chair as well for easy use of optical media... and there are 15 2tb drives full of audio and video at ready access. Oh... and it plays flac.
S
p.s. Maybe there's a reason women are attracted to macs...
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:55 PM, realafrica <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:
Hmmm...... I might get me a 2nd hand Mac off Ebay for when I go for a coffee.
On Friday, January 4, 2013 9:45:39 PM UTC, floyd fisher wrote:ALL my other 5.1 files work, thru hdmi, except for one. so am good. (plus women are attracted to my mac at coffeebars....ATTRACTIVE women...) :-p
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Steven Sullivan <ssu...@panix.com> wrote:
Sony Vaio laptop, SSD, 8 Gb RAM, Windows 7, Foobar2000, 1080p HDMI out that streams any audio or video I throw at it, 2.6 lbs...you were saying? ;>
On 01/04/13 16:31, floyd fisher wrote:
am resisting a smartass comeback... :-)
guess i'll just have to suffer with my macbook pro, it's SSD, 8gigs ram...stability, light weight, great OS...
On Friday, January 4, 2013 3:52:54 PM UTC-5, Thunderrocker69 wrote:Its only complicated if you insist on using a mac... ;)
S
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:40 PM, floyd fisher <fisher...@gmail.com> wrote:
that app is from 2003, and a PPC app...not intel. but you've got me pointed in a good direction, will look for other similar apps on macupdate...
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:37 PM, floyd fisher <fisher...@gmail.com> wrote:
thanx, will explore this now... amazed how complicated this is (and AMAZED at how helpful everyone here is as well!). will report back...
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Steven Sullivan <ssu...@panix.com> wrote:
Again, flac is just a compressed format, like a .zip file. Just as you have to unzip a zip file before you use, any audio playback software you use would have to decompress the .flac file first before it plays. Software like foobar does this 'on the fly', you never see the decompressed file .
If your player software doesn't decompress flac files on the fly, then you must decompress ('convert') them yourself and keep them as dts.wav files -- Mac users can use FLAcer (http://www.macupdate.com/app/
mac/16458/flacer ) for this, if you have no other flac encode/decode software handy. It's a simple drag and drop app.As a side note, the only reason these .dts.wav files (which are already lossy compressed) are also .flac compressed, is to allow tagging. There was no file size advantage to making them .flacs. There is no reason they have to stay as flacs, if you don't care about tagging.
Once you have your files as dts.wav files -- which are just .dts files in a .wav wrapper -- I am presuming there must be some Mac software that can bitstream them bit-perfectly (you do NOT want to decode the dts/dts.wav files in the computer; you want to bitstream them and let your AVR decode the DTS information). Make sure the soundcard/software output is set to 48kHz, and that your computer volume level is MAXED. Otherwise the bitstream will be altered and the output will be static.
On 01/04/13 14:04, floyd fisher wrote:
i already have them as flac files, am trying to either convert them, or play them. isedora gives me...static. converting to wav (in Max) gives me wav files that play static.
it's beyond me (for now LOL); all my other files are dvd audio, and work great. (still, it's some of the best static i've heard...)...
On Friday, January 4, 2013 1:49:51 PM UTC-5, Blee...@yahoo.comwrote:Well one thing that is a problem is that flac isn't at all supported on macs. You must have a 3rd party software to play it. Second, I am unclear what you are converting TO flac. If it
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