DTS-HD MA - WITHOUT! - a core

[bendermac]

Another update: I did a test with the nVidia Shield and my Oppo 203
The ShieldTV transcode the coreless DTS-HD to PCM
The Oppo hangs up after one second.

So in my book, it's not worth the hassle. Either keep the original DTS-HD or transcode to FLAC.

[deleted user]

Another update: I did a test with the nVidia Shield and my Oppo 203
The ShieldTV transcode the coreless DTS-HD to PCM
The Oppo hangs up after one second.

So in my book, it's not worth the hassle. Either keep the original DTS-HD or transcode to FLAC.

That's a shame.

[2001CluelessDianogas]

Man so there is no way to encode DTS-MA at 44.1kHz rate?
That seems absurd. But it only seems to allow it for music encoding but then that has other critical elements missing for movie tracks.
I always have hated programs that try to assume they know better than what the user wants and lock out various options.

[stwd4nder2]

Man so there is no way to encode DTS-MA at 44.1kHz rate?
That seems absurd. But it only seems to allow it for music encoding but then that has other critical elements missing for movie tracks.
I always have hated programs that try to assume they know better than what the user wants and lock out various options.

Just use flac. Better compression, more options, it's open source, and pretty much everything supports it at this point. The only reason you would ever want to use DTS-HD is if you're specifically creating a disc.

[2001CluelessDianogas]

Man so there is no way to encode DTS-MA at 44.1kHz rate?
That seems absurd. But it only seems to allow it for music encoding but then that has other critical elements missing for movie tracks.
I always have hated programs that try to assume they know better than what the user wants and lock out various options.

Just use flac. Better compression, more options, it's open source, and pretty much everything supports it at this point. The only reason you would ever want to use DTS-HD is if you're specifically creating a disc.

A few people seem to say that multi-channel .wav type encodings are not working properly with their receivers (I imagine FLAC would give the same issues as LPCM). Giving either stereo or channels going to the wrong places. Or not 
applying LFE boost. Etc. So I was thinking of DTS-MA. But due to the no 44.1kHz I'm gonna use TrueHD instead as an alternative option. Managed to get encoding for that going and it does allow 44.1kHz.