#7.1 dts decoder code#
#7.1 dts decoder Pc#
#7.1 dts decoder ps3#

In order to decode DTS-HD, MakeMKV needs a so-called reference decoder DLL. Unfortunately, MakeMKV still needs an external decoder to decode DTS-HD and a one-time setup is required. More details about MakeMKV audio transcoding capabilities may be found on our forum. Starting from version 1.7.5 MakeMKV can decode DTS-HD audio streams and save them in any supported format (LPCM, FLAC, etc). Just remember who brought it to you in a first place. It was a good run, for 10 years mmdtsdec was the only open solution to decode all DTS streams and for a few years it was the only open solution for DTS-HD Master Audio decoding (on all platforms!).

#7.1 dts decoder code#

With this change mmdtsdec code is finally retired for good.

The information below is outdated and is preserved only for historical reasons.ДЄpril 2018 UPDATE: Starting from version 1.12.1 MakeMKV uses ffmpeg DTS decoder which supports all codecs, including DTS-HD LBR (XSA). July 2015 UPDATE: Starting from version 1.9.3 MakeMKV uses an open source DTS-HD decoding library without the need for any additional files. The most common application is DTS-HD Master Audio - a lossless codec that is used on many blu-ray discs.

#7.1 dts decoder Pc#

In PC environments, decoding Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD with exactly that is entirely trivial nowadays, hence also my cynicism.DTS-HD is a family of proprietary audio codecs. Actually, it should be possible for them to decode the stuff on their own and feed the somewhat stubborn chipset with the LPCM result instead.ДЄnother possible approach might also have been to give users the option to add something like libavcodec manually to circumvent any licensing concerns for their product out of the box. What is odd however is, that players such as Kodi don't seem to be able do decode it using regular 'software' routines either. The chipset itself apparently is capable of multichannel PCM output as otherwise, it wouldn't work with multichannel AAC or FLAC sources either. The question where that incompatibility arises technically is an interesting one though. But anyway, some people in marketing departments obviously decided to take the road of ignorance here. Taken aside that the needlessness of that ability is up to personal usage scenarios as this thread clearly shows, I doubt that it would be more than a few dollars and thus hardly make a huge difference in relation to the 'not exactly cheap anyway' total price. What's the saying? 'It concerns the principle'. Although I tend to take any TrueHD/DTS-HD sources and encode it into way more efficient stuff like AAC anyway these days. Reason enough to return my Orbsmart R81 (rebranded Zidoo Z9x). 5.1) as the lossless variants are not really distinguishable from their lossy counterparts, given the relatively high bitrates of the AC3 and DTS 'cores', but still it takes quite some ignorance at either the chipset or product manufacturer's side to fob customers off with stereo PCM in 2021. I am also realistic enough to be aware than one 'only' looses special features such as object based rendering in the case of Atmos maybe and the few additional channels (7.1 vs. Any player then would be 'degraded' to just a media source -> HDMI interlink, more or less becoming effectively obsolete. AAC and FLAC are also decoded fine by a Zidoo (because most probably no regular AVR has support for those) and following the bit-streaming fetish many seem to have nowadays, one could also apply that logic to the video part and let the display take care of the decoding and reconstruction in memory here as well. While one can always argue that most consumers nowadays have an AVR capable of decoding the lossless fancily merchandised codecs from Dolby and DTS on their own, on the other hand, it raises the question what one needs a 'player' - which as a core part is a decoder - for in the first place. 24.000 Hz, HDR to SDR tone mapping and whatnot) but never thought that this would be in fact still something up to discussion. In my case, I took such a decoding for granted by now, so I considered virtually anything else (23.976 Hz vs.

#7.1 dts decoder ps3#

Well, about four years later with the successors using the Realtek RTD1619DR, it apparently is the same tragedy in terms of decoding AC3, E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS(-HD) into PCM multichannel, something a PS3 from 2006 (!) did perfectly fine.ДЄt least, with the Zidoo Z9x, they now state the one-liner 'Support HD audio passthrough and decode 2 channels' which should raise enough suspicion for any buyer who still cares for that.