[mythtv-users] surround sound.

John P Poet jppoet at gmail.com
Thu Nov 16 02:39:42 UTC 2006


On 11/15/06, Willy Boyd <willyboyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> I finally tracked down an adequate test file
> (http://pessoal.onda.com.br/rjamorim/stuff/test.dts.zip), and played
> it with this call:
>
> ("turtle" is the alias I gave my Turtle Beach USB card, as I have an
> SB in there as well)
> $ mplayer -ao alsa:device=turtle -ac hwdts test.dts
>
> DTS encoded file, played with passthrough.  I got "Left Front", "Right
> Front", and so on, discretely on each speaker.  In other words,
> confirmation that this little doohickey *does* digital passthrough on
> the optical-outl.
>
> - Willy

It would be really nice if MythMusic could play DTS tracks.  I have a
few DTS music CDs which I would love to import into MythMusic.

John


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