Thread: Help! Decoding DTS, but not Dolby Digital!

[tehblackninja]

I have this system: Panasonic SA-HT800V

I recently encoded a surround sound test I made in Dolby Digital Wav format using BeSweet, and then burned it to a CD, but when I played it, the dolby light didn't light up, the speaker indicators stayed at Left and Right, and I just heard the pulsating static like when one tries to play the wav file without a decoder.

I happen to know that a DTS-WAV works perfectly, so what is wrong with the DD-WAV decoder?

Thanks in advance!

[guns1inger]

Have you set your player to output DD via the digital connection to your amp ?

[daphy]

Hiho,

for me it sounds like your DVD-player tries to handle this PCM-like DDWAV like a normal 16bit44.1KHz as usual on CD-Audio (infact it is one but needs to be decoded), DTSWAV contains a simular type of WAV but your player doesn´t touch it -> your amp do the decoding job.

Possible solution:
unplug your analog chich kabels (black(or white) and red) and leave only your chinch digital kabel and/or your optical TOSLink connection plugged.
-> what could happen: your amp won´t get a wrong decoded signal - only the (un-)decoded AC3 - maybe he would decode it by himself