DTS Vs. Tv Media Player

[Patrrick]

Hi guys,

I got a Toshiba Tv that can handle 3D. I got some movies from a friend, all are with DTS sound. All of them run from the portable HDD but none have sound.

I guess the Tv Media Player doesn't support DTS sound...

So what to do now ?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Very few TV's and set top media players support DTS, you will have to covert the audio to another format(eg AC3, AAC, etc). Look at your TV's manual to see what it supports.

[Patrrick]

Any idea how to do that. I'm a complete noob on this front, would appreciate the help if you please?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Read the manual that came with your TV or go here:

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/worldwide/europe.html

You could use HandBrake to convert the files, there are other ways to demux the audio and convert but HandBrake is easier.

[Patrrick]

Thank you man!

[aedipuss]

if they are mkv files it might be really easy. check out MKV2AC3

[jman98]

Or you could just buy a real media player that supports DTS like one of the Western Digital models instead of spending the rest of your life converting audio files, but if you want to continue to pound square pegs into round holes to make your TV media player happy, it's your time to waste.

Do note that TVs have severe limitations on what they will play in video too so even if you are willing to continually convert audio files, you will probably eventually start running into video problems as well. Customers like to believe that TV media players are "plays everything" devices but really they are not.

[yoda313]

Or better still is to buy an amp that plays dts (used ones from 5 to ten years ago would do so long as you trust the seller that it is in good shape - for standard def audio you don't need it to be fancy so long as it says it can decode dts audio). Than you just connect a fiber optic (assuming its fiber optic) out to the amp and do the feed as digital or fiber optic out or whatever the output for the fiber connection is.

Of course downside is you can only listen to a dts track through the amp then that way. You would need to convert it to ac3 to play it through the tv without an external dts amp.

[hello_hello]

If there's a TV with a media player these days which doesn't play AVC level 4.1 h264 video I'd be astounded. Even the hardware decoder in my smartphone happily plays it at 1080p.

I've never used MKV2AC3 but it sounds like it'd make the job easy, assuming the TV is okay with AC3 audio.
While my TV happily plays DTS audio I generally convert it to AAC to save a little space. Even doing it the way I do it with existing MKVs..... I convert the audio with foobar2000 and then use MKVToolnix to replace the DTS audio with the AAC version, it probably takes an average of 15 minutes per movie. I don't convert to AC3 very often but if memory serves me correctly it's even quicker than converting to AAC.

[Patrrick]

I've used yr_eac3to_more_gui + mkvmerge GUI and it worked like a charm. Then I used MKV2AC3 and that worked also. To be honest I would stay with the latest, for it does the job with only 1-2 clicks.

But yes, eventually I will get a real media player. Not yet though. It takes about 10 mins for the MKV2AC3 to do the job.

Thank you all for the answers, you guys are great!