From: Kean P. <za...@za...> - 2003-06-10 00:38:42
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:51:23AM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Kean Pedersen wrote: > > >additional description: > >---------------------- > > > >I'm using the AC3 pass though to get my external decoder to handle the DTS > >signal. However, after the DVD has played for 10-15 secs, the "fixing sound > >card drift" kicks in, and one of these are displayed every second. After > >9-10 of these, the sound simply stops (or starts clicking) - If I then seek > >a bit in the stream, the sound comes back for another 10-15 secs. > > > >Normal stereo (non-AC3 pass though) works perfectly though. I tried other > >DVD players (mplayer and ogle), but there's no problem with the AC3 there. > > > >In the output above, the first chunk of "metronom" messages are from the > >pre-menu intro on the DVD, and the next chunk is from the actual movie. > > > > > Just to clarify: - > When xine is playing AC3 audio to an external decoder is it bad? > When xine is playing DTS audio to an external decoder is it bad? > Does mplayer and ogle handle the DTS track, or do they only play AC3? > Whoops, sorry - I got AC3/DTS mixed up (new to this). Anyway, according to my external decoder (Sony str-de675 [1]) it is not getting a DTS stream, so it must be an AC3 stream in all cases. In the pre-menu intro mentioned above, there's two channels in the stream and in the movie itself, there's 5 in the stream. So to answer your questions: AC3 to external decoder is bad DTS to external decoder: unknown does mplayer/ogle handle DTS: unknown I just checked my "collection" (count: 3) of DVDs, and none have DTS - only 5.1 Dolby Digital or Dolby Surround. I'll see if I can borrow a DVD somewhere with DTS tomorrow. If you, from the above ramlings can tell that I have a wrong idea of multichannel sound streams, please correct me :) [1]: http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/ss5/home/homeaudio/receivers/str-de675.shtml |