No sound..."feature missing: DTS Decoding" ?

[vm711]

I'm new to DVD burning and havent gotten my burner in yet, I'm just ripping a couple movies to my HD to get the hang of it. I used DVDshrink and ripped the Fountain yesteryday, uncompressed movie only and it worked beautifully. But then I tried Pan's Labyrinth, movie only and it needed to be compressed a bit. I did so and let that run overnight. While reauthoring it last night I ignored that there was no sound coming from the preview screen. I thought that would take care of itself, but it didn't. Thismorning it was compete and when I viewed it wth Nero Showtime, I got the same thing, video and no sound in the backround...in the front there was a pop up saying I need a HD DVD/Blu Ray decoder or something and "Feature missing: DTS Decoding" It explained I needed to buy the decoder from Nero and whatnot.
Is there somewhere free I can get this decoder? And if I just go ahead and burn it as it is, will it not work in my DVD player because of this? I also tried playing the DVD in Interactual PC player and got a similar message, that my computer did not have a working decoder installed or something.

BTW if your wondering how I got the movies to rip, I work at Hollywood video

[aedipuss]

dts isn't really needed. rip dvds with the ac3 5.1 audio stream and leave out the dts. the sound will almost be the same and it will save space to boot. ps there is no english audio on pans labryrinth so any audio stream will do for background noise while you read the subs.

as for a free plugin dts decoder, none that i know of. you might try using the free mpc as i think it may play dts audio.

[reylafo]

VM711: if you have a Surround Sound Home Theater do yourself a favor and watch the movie with DTS sound. The quality is Way superior than ac3 5.1 Dolby. Let your ears tell the difference. This is why DTS track file has so much data(look in shrink). More data, more quality. Same principle as HD-DVD.
Most DVD players decode DTS. Only paid DVD software players for computers decode DTS. Sorry but the free version player we all get in our computers dont decode DTS.
Anyway, DTS sound makes the Home Theater experience complete. Pump up the volume!