.wav and .dts file problems

[bskies]

I have some files that are .Wav's and some that have the extension of .dts. When I try to play them through my regular "stereo" on the PC, I just get the usual noise. Then when I record them to disc, they won't play (I get an "Error") after I put the disc in my DVD player. These are supposed to be 5.1 files but they won't play on my system. I have recorded many a disc that contained (5.1) these types of files with no problem. There are some files I cannot record and then play on my 5.1 system others I have no problems with. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to convert these files or record to disc (CD or DVD) with another program? I am currently using Nero 7. What is up with these files?? Thanks in advance for any help.

ttyl
bskies

[guns1inger]

I'm not sure exactly what you are doing. If you are trying to create DTS audio CD tracks then the DTS encoding must be done at 44.1 kHz and placed inside a wav container so your CD burning application treats like any other wav.

[Alex_ander]

If I understand you right, you have files ripped from a DTS CD but usually you recorded such CDs from image file and had no problem.
If so, you can try to burn the wav type files as a usual audio CD but first test the results on RW media or burn in Nero to the virtual recording drive (to get an .nrg image file), mount it and play in a DVD player (like PowerDVD, WinDVD etc.). It's normal that those wavs don't play directly on PC (any software will treat them like uncompresed audio that's false).
With .dts files ripped from CD it's not as simple (depends on how they were ripped and are they really .dts files). In some rare cases (as people report) these files are actually the same as your wavs (so called DTS-wavs), then changing file extention and burning as audio CD helps.
Don't try to treat that way .dts files ripped from DVD: you need to completely decompess them to separate wavs, resample 48 to 44.1 kHz and re-encode those to DTS-wavs to use for a DTS CD. Very complicated.