audio 5.1 cds all static

[rcmpayne]

i got a cd from a friend he said it was DTS 5.1 so i put the cd in my computer and played it
it was all static and clunking noises, i looked at the contents of the cd and it was 17 .cda tracks

whats going on? can you get a cda track in dts 5.1

[mats.hogberg]

No. Not as a regular audio cd, at least.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

DTS or AC3 at 4.1kHz can be encoded into a PCM wrapper and put onto a standard CD. It looks like any other CD from a structural point of view, however you need to have a DTS or AC3 encoder to play them, or else you get pink noise (static). PowerDVD can plays these discs correctly, or a DVD player or CD player with a digital (optical or coax) connection to a decoding amplifier. A standard DVD player will not downmix these to stereo in the same way it will a DVD audio track.

[stantheman1976]

I've seen at least a couple live Pearl Jam recordings where someone would take the oficial live release made by the band and 1 or 2 audience recordings and make a DTS mix of the concert. They appear to be regular PCM WAV files or regular audio CD but you need a DTS decoder to play them or else it's just static.