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VideoLan and DTS sound

Posted: 18 Jan 2004 22:19
by perfectmark
Is there a way to get the DTS sound on my DVDs to play in VLC 0.7. I dont have any other DVD player software that support DTS.

My computer:
Windows 2000
VLC 0.7
Soundblaster Audigy
2500XP
Analogue 5.1 speakers

Posted: 19 Jan 2004 14:02
by The DJ
There is no such way.

Posted: 19 Jan 2004 14:13
by Dnumgis
VLC can use an external decoder for this.

Posted: 19 Jan 2004 14:58
by perfectmark
Are there any plans to let VLC decode DTS sound?

Posted: 19 Jan 2004 17:53
by Sigmund
no

Posted: 20 Jan 2004 03:17
by The DJ
VLC can use an external decoder for this.
He said he didn't have aditional hardware, so this is a mood point 8)

Posted: 20 Jan 2004 10:13
by Sigmund
If I'm not completely blind he said he had no other dvd player software.

Posted: 20 Jan 2004 14:02
by perfectmark
Thanks for your awnsers. I have just gone out and got WinDVD 5 because it supports DTS. I had hoped to keep using VLC for all my DVDs, but it does not matter too much since I have a region-free DVD ROM drive.

Posted: 20 Jan 2004 14:24
by The DJ
the reason there is no DTS decoder in VLC is because then you would need to pay dolby royalties or something. DTS is actually quite a proprietary format.

Posted: 20 Jan 2004 17:31
by Guest
isn't it possible to let vlc use the dts decompression from windvd?

Posted: 20 Jan 2004 18:47
by Sigmund
It is technically possible, but noone have had the modivation to do that yet