VideoLan and DTS sound

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VideoLan and DTS sound

Postby perfectmark » 18 Jan 2004 22:19

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.

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VLC 0.7
Soundblaster Audigy
2500XP
Analogue 5.1 speakers

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Postby The DJ » 19 Jan 2004 14:02

There is no such way.
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Postby Dnumgis » 19 Jan 2004 14:13

VLC can use an external decoder for this.

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Postby perfectmark » 19 Jan 2004 14:58

Are there any plans to let VLC decode DTS sound?

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Postby Sigmund » 19 Jan 2004 17:53

no

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Postby The DJ » 20 Jan 2004 03:17

VLC can use an external decoder for this.
He said he didn't have aditional hardware, so this is a mood point 8)
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Postby Sigmund » 20 Jan 2004 10:13

If I'm not completely blind he said he had no other dvd player software.

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Postby perfectmark » 20 Jan 2004 14:02

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.

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Postby The DJ » 20 Jan 2004 14:24

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.
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Postby Guest » 20 Jan 2004 17:31

isn't it possible to let vlc use the dts decompression from windvd?

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Postby Sigmund » 20 Jan 2004 18:47

It is technically possible, but noone have had the modivation to do that yet


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