DTS Theater Disc converted. But...

[kaotek]

Hypothetical situation...

Let's say that one has DTS audio discs for the theater (with the .AUD files and all) and converts the 5.1 mix to 5 mono uncompressed wav files. The bass is all taken care of too. So now they've got 6 mono wav files, maintaining the quality, but want to convert them to just 1 single 5.1 wav file but without any type of compression, i.e. .ac3, .mp3, etc., but also wants to fit this file on to either a few blank cds or dvds, or one blank DVD9, for playback in a dvd player. how do you go about this? how can these 6 mono files be converted to 1 wav file, still be multichannel and uncompressed, and be compatible with a dvd player? a multichannel pcm or wav file has been unable to work on a few tested dvd players. what is the solution without compression?

multichannel.wav
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pcm. 16-bit. 44,100. burned to a cd-r. FAILED to playback on dvd player burned either as data or audio.

????? any help would be great! thanks.

[BJ_M]

2 hours uncompressed 5.1 wav files going to need several disks

you can't far as i know ... it will have to be compressed

[kaotek]

damn. ac3 would kill the quality. what to do what to do

[kaotek]

surcode. what is the cheapest version for 5.1 authoring? if its going to be compressed its gonna be dts.

[Skynet107]

If you want to compress but without loss you can use the FLAC codec. It is a lossless audio codec. It is computer based only though, it will not be playable on any stand alone device that I know of. FLAC compresses between 2x-3x which can be very useful for archiving audio.

[daphy]

MLP could be the right solution for you -> authored in a DVD-Audio it should over the best quality with less space consumption :P

[kaotek]

Surcode DVD-DTS is being used to do this.

if you take 16 bits and convert it to 24 will it affect the quality of the sound negatively, improve it a bit, or not do anything and just waste space on the file size? i would imagine it would waste space because the original master isn't being used, rather an already compressed form.

[daphy]

Question was:

what is the solution without compression?

Surcode DVD-DTS is and that is fact a lossy encoder, MLP not (but it is expensive like hell )
There only a view alternatives, one is to make a DVD-Audio using the uncompressed WAVs with discwelder (the playing time would be extreme short because of the 6 channels uncompressed), or compress them lossless with MLP (the only lossless encoder inside the DVD-Audio standart) -> the playing time will much longer.

I´ll guess it´s the best opportunity to chose a lossy format and make a DVD-Video out of it!
In my opinion Surcode DVD DTS then would be the best choice!

bye Daphy

[smearbrick1]

what is the solution without compression?

First, isn't DTS itself a form of compression?

Second, why not just leave it as DTS... the standalone could handle it.

Third, Did you say you wanted to put this as 5.1 on CD? As in audio CD?

[daphy]

First, isn't DTS itself a form of compression?

yes, but lossy -> he asks for a lossless solution

Second, why not just leave it as DTS... the standalone could handle it.

DTS audio discs for the theater (with the .AUD files and all)

AUD is not exactly the same as DTS, definitivl no home DVD can handle this files

Third, Did you say you wanted to put this as 5.1 on CD? As in audio CD?

as a 6 channel WAV, it won´t fit to the audioCD standart, but this question should be answered by kaotek

bye Daphy

[BJ_M]

DTS theater disks (which are on cd) (AUD files) can be converterd to wav and then to anything else ..

the theater compression is different than the home dts compression ..

[BJ_M]

the theater disks ONLY play on a DTS-6D or 6AD cinema system, which is a standalone hardware unit..


but there is a way to convert the content to wav on a pc ..

[daphy]

you think about the APT-X100 DTS Decoder,

yep, with this program it´s possible

bye Daphy

[BJ_M]

yes - it works perfect

[kaotek]

i've already gotten it all to work. now i'm just going to sync up this big ass dts file with the movie and burn to a dvd9.

[kaotek]

damn. the .dts file gradually goes out of sync about 20 minutes in to the movie. any help?

[BJ_M]

it has to be locked to the dts time code on the film as they are not in sync otherwise .. you have to (if it happens) re-sync them manually if you don't have a portable dts sync generator handy ...

Using Vegas is about the easiest way to re sync audio

[kaotek]

good i have sony vegas but how do i sync it up? is there a guide here ont he site? if there was some way to just squeeze the track, you know? so it doesn't drift off.

[BJ_M]

the easy way is with vegas i think

put the movie on the time line and drop all the waves on the time line in thier respective channel spots ...

group all wav files together ..

hit control and drag the end of the audio so it matchs lenth of video .

fine tune and adjust as needed (turn off frame quantization for this)

save out new wavs , select render to mono wav (will save and auto name each channel)