[mythtv-users] DTS-HD

[John Baab]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 February 2010 16:06, John Baab <rhpot1991 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Is anyone successfully playing any videos with DTS-HD in .22?  If I
>> downmix to 2 channel I get sound, but I'd really like to use my
>> surround sound.  When using passthrough I don't get any sound on these
>> videos.
>
> DTS-HD currently isn't well supported in ffmpeg, as such mythtv
> doesn't support it either.
>
> The patch I added a little while ago is used to downconvert 32 bits
> audio tracks into 16 bits audio track... It wasn't specifically done
> to play DTS-HD, Dolby Digital + etc...
>
> Before myth can play the audio, it first needs to be decoded by ffmpeg.
>
> There is a new ffmpeg sync around the corner, you can check on how
> this is going...
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Is there a better option for playing these movies at this point?  The
two that I have seen only seem to have the english track in DTS-HD.
Meanwhile the other language tracks are not in DTS-HD, but that
doesn't help me much.