vlc 0.4.1 error: "DTS audio not handled yet"

[Xavier MAILLARD]

Gildas Bazin <gbazin at netcourrier.com> disait récemment que :

> On Sunday 14 July 2002 08:21, Xavier MAILLARD wrote:
>> See Below To Reply <fake_address at aol.com> disait récemment que :
>> 
>> > i just compiled vlc 0.4.1 without any errors. when i start
>> > up the client it works fine, but when i try to open a DVD
>> > (File->Open Disc...) i get the following error message:
>> >
>> > dvd warning: DTS audio not handled yet(0x88bd)
>> 
>> That means that decoding DTS sound is not implemented. I have suggested
>> to the dev team to develop it but this is not an important thing for
>> now.
>> DTS DVD often comes with DolbyDigital 5.1 stream so use it for instance
>> and check for the DTS decoding in a near/far future :)
>>  
>
> Well, I would rather say really far future as there are currently _zero_ 
> specs available on the DTS format. That means it would have to be reverse 
> engineered from scratch, and even though this format as been available for 
> quite some time, nobody has yet dared to work on this...

You are so pessimistic :) Dev team is quite efficient so why not even
with RE technic :)

> One solution though would be to make a bypass plugin for DTS audio so it 
> could be possible to plug an external DTS decoder to the SPDIF output of 
> your soundcard. This is already available for AC3 audio in VLC but would 
> require some work to support DTS.
Yup I think this can be a quick hack but a real support would be
better. Although this is quite interesting to try your solution.

zeDek
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