no sound when playing back a DVD with only DTS audio tracks

[NeonSign]

Hi. I'm using a Pioneer DV-350, and I'm playing back a DVD but I get no audio. The only two audio tracks on the disc are DTS tracks, so I think that's what the problem might be. I don't have the digital audio out hooked up to anything.. because I have nothing to hook it up to. Instead I just have the phono stereo out hooked up to the audio in on my midi system.

I was wondering if any of you guys knew anything about this? Should it be possible for me to get audio from a DTS audio track broadcast through the stereo out (though, obviously not in surround) so that I can hear it? Or is the simple fact that if the audio tracks are DTS, then I can't hear them unless I hook the digital audio out up to something?

Thanks for any help anyone can give me

[Grimey]

You can only play DTS tracks through a reciever that has a DTS decoder. Is the dvd a commercial dvd? if it is, then it should have another track, either AC3 track or a stereo track. if your remote has an "audio" button on it, press it to change audio tracks.

[steveryan]

Yes, DTS is the problem. Your player won't convert the audio into stereo like it would do for Dolby Digital.

[Denvers Dawgs]

In order to hear the DTS you must ahve a decoder, they're built into surround sound systems, as well as some receivers. Your dvd player cannot decode(encode)? the dts soundtrack.... If you don't have surround sound just use the AC3 soundtracks. I found this out when I started out. dvd wouldn't have sound when through tv, turned on surround and it was fine. DTS doesn't matter to me so I still just use the AC3 files.