DTS Soundtracks plays on my player, not my friends

[bamafamily]

I used DVD2One and only chose the DTS soundtrack.
My Cyberhome has no problem with it, but my friend's player wont play the track. The video is fine but not the audio.
All his DD 5.1 stuff plays fine.
He is using the Coaxial Out and the DVD player is indeed DTS compatible.

Any ideas???

thx
bama

[abrakadabra]

You say his DVD player is DTS compatible.
What about his amp?
Can he play the DTS track on commercial disks?

[bamafamily]

his amp is also DTS compatible...
I also told him to press his "Audio" button to try and change tracks on the DVD player while it was playing..Maybe DTS was on track #2 and his player defaulted to 1..Anywys..that did not work

I told him to find a retail DTS DVD and see if it plays...He is pretty sure that he has seen his Amp light up with "DTS DGTL SURR" before though.

thx

bama

[bugster]

The DVD standard requires that all disks must have at leats one audio track of either PCM or AC3 (or mp2 in Europe). Your disk has none of these. It may be that your friends player is more 'standards compliant' than yours and is not happy with DTS as the only audio track.

[spiderman2k1]

https://www.videohelp.com/dvd

PAL

Video:
Up to 9.8 Mbit/sec MPEG2 or up to 1.856 MBit/sec MPEG1 video
720 x 576 pixels MPEG2
704 x 576 pixels MPEG2
352 x 576 pixels MPEG2 (Same as the CVD Standard)
352 x 288 pixels MPEG2
352 x 288 pixels MPEG1 (Same as the VCD Standard)
25 fps (frames/second)


Audio:
48000 Hz
32 - 1536 kbit/sec
Up to 8 audio tracks containing Dolby Digital, DTS, PCM(uncompressed audio), MPEG-1 Layer2. One audio track must have MPEG-1, DD or PCM Audio.

Extras:
Menus, still pictures, subtitles and more.


For more technical DVD-Video details read the DVDDemystified DVD FAQ section 3.4 or the mpeg.org DVD Technical Notes.

NTSC (NTSC Film)

Video:
Up to 9.8 Mbit/sec MPEG2 or up to 1.856 MBit/sec MPEG1 video
720 x 480 pixels MPEG2
704 x 480 pixels MPEG2
352 x 480 pixels MPEG2 (Same as the CVD Standard)
352 x 240 pixels MPEG2
352 x 240 pixels MPEG1 (Same as the VCD Standard)
29,97 fps (frames/second)
23,976 fps with 3:2 pulldown = 29,97 playback fps (NTSC Film, this is only supported by MPEG2 video)


Audio:
48000 Hz
32 - 1536 kbit/sec
Up to 8 audio tracks containing DD (Dolby Digital/AC3), DTS, PCM(uncompressed audio), MPEG-1 Layer2. One audio track must have DD or PCM Audio.

Extras:
Menus, still pictures, subtitles and more.

[bamafamily]

well...that makes a little more sense...His DVD player is one of those older (read 3yr old) Sony's that might have to be more "compliant"

thx

bama