[CodeMonkey]

Hello Everybody!

I've finished this thread, tried all the hints and tipps but coudn't get DTS 44.1 kHz wav files to play on my mediacenter.

Here are my specifications:

OS: Win 7 x64
XBMC: Camelot (stable release)
Receiver: Yamaha RX-V765T
Audio: ATI 4850 HDMI Audio Controller

With the paplayer I don't get any DTS to my receiver, only PCM Stereo.
Although he recognizes them in the Visualzerscreen as DTS-Codec nothing seems to be passed to my receiver.

When switching to the dvdplayer i only get the 48.0 kHz to work - all other fails.
With the AC3filter (or only ReClock) in Windows via mpc-hc and Zoomplayer all the DTS-wav's are playing fine.
In my XBMC videos with DTS Tracks are also working without a problem.

By the way, could someone update this trac ticket?

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5005

Changed 5 days ago by malloc
Anyone tested this in the last 15 months? Is it still an issue?

I would've done it myself, but i don't own an trac account yet.

Thanks for your support!

Greetings,
Codey

[tidan]

Hello Everybody!

I've finished this thread, tried all the hints and tipps but coudn't get DTS 44.1 kHz wav files to play on my mediacenter.

Here are my specifications:

OS: Win 7 x64
XBMC: Camelot (stable release)
Receiver: Yamaha RX-V765T
Audio: ATI 4850 HDMI Audio Controller

With the paplayer I don't get any DTS to my receiver, only PCM Stereo.
Although he recognizes them in the Visualzerscreen as DTS-Codec nothing seems to be passed to my receiver.

When switching to the dvdplayer i only get the 48.0 kHz to work - all other fails.
With the AC3filter (or only ReClock) in Windows via mpc-hc and Zoomplayer all the DTS-wav's are playing fine.
In my XBMC videos with DTS Tracks are also working without a problem.

By the way, could someone update this trac ticket?

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5005



I would've done it myself, but i don't own an trac account yet.

Thanks for your support!

Greetings,
Codey

DTS 44.1 khz wav files work fantastic under Linux with XBMC. I've not had much luck with Windows and DTS wav files.

One option would be to add Linux to your media center (its very very simple to create a dual boot machine) since it works better as a HTPC in my opinion anyways. Then you can have both Bimbows and Linux (and whatever else you want to add) all seperate and bootable.

With a seperate data partition to house all your media files and the addition of ext2ifs you can read your Linux file systems from Windows.

Since Linux(Ubuntu) is free, why not?!

[CodeMonkey]

@tidan

thanks for you response,
yeah it's true i could use ubuntu (i'm using it allready for my home server so the setup shoudln't be the problem - i've chosen win7 due to the games i sometimes play on my mce (like grider) - but does ubuntu support some kind of dxva for ati cards?

But i would love to see my DTS files be playbacked on win7 ;-)

[tidan]

@tidan

thanks for you response,
yeah it's true i could use ubuntu (i'm using it allready for my home server so the setup shoudln't be the problem - i've chosen win7 due to the games i sometimes play on my mce (like grider) - but does ubuntu support some kind of dxva for ati cards?

But i would love to see my DTS files be playbacked on win7 ;-)

No problem!
Ubuntu has pretty good support now for ATI cards. Though you may still have to use "software" rendering mode for 1080p videos which should work fine.
The nice part is, you're reallly not out anything if it doesn't - you can have it as a secondary OS as it will likely support your video card down the road regardless.

I use nvidia on all my linux machines (and most my windows machines as well).

[orvarfrid]

@tidan

I've done everything you suggested but still no luck. I'm wondering if my .asoundrc file could have something to do with this?

PHP Code:

hdmi {
  type hw
  card 0
  device 3
}

pcm.hdmiconv {
  type plug
  slave {
    pcm "hw:0,3"
    rate 48000
  }
} 


I'm using HDMI for both video and audio.

[orvarfrid]

DTS 44.1 khz wav files work fantastic under Linux with XBMC.

Straight after the install or after some modifications?

[tidan]

Straight after the install or after some modifications?

Pretty much straight after install with the addition of a file you create called "playercorefactory.xml" which contains the following:

Code:

<playercorefactory>
  <players>
    <!-- These are compiled-in as re-ordering them would break scripts
    The following aliases may also be used:
      audiodefaultplayer, videodefaultplayer, videodefaultdvdplayer
    <player name="DVDPlayer" audio="true" video="true" />
    <player name="DVDPlayer" /> placeholder for MPlayer
    <player name="PAPlayer" audio="true" />
    -->
  </players>

  <rules>
    <rule protocols="rtv" player="DVDPlayer" />
    <rule protocols="hdhomerun|myth|cmyth|rtmp" player="DVDPlayer" />
    <rule protocols="lastfm|shout" player="PAPlayer" />

    <!-- dvdplayer can play standard rtsp streams -->
    <rule protocols="rtsp" filetypes="!(rm|ra)"  player="PAPlayer" />
    
    <!-- dvdplayer can play DTS and wav multichannel tracks -->
    <rule filetypes="(dts|wav)"  player="DVDPlayer" />

    <!-- Internet streams -->
    <rule internetstream="true">
      <rule mimetypes="video/x-flv|video-flv|audio/aacp|application/sdp" player="DVDPlayer" />
      <rule mimetypes="application/octet-stream" filetypes="mp2" player="PAPlayer" />
    </rule>

    <!-- DVDs -->
    <rule dvd="true" player="videodefaultdvdplayer" />
    <rule dvdfile="true" player="videodefaultdvdplayer" />
    <rule dvdimage="true" player="videodefaultdvdplayer" />

    <!-- Only dvdplayer can handle these normally -->
    <rule filetypes="sdp|asf" player="DVDPlayer" />
  </rules>
</playercorefactory>

Put this file in the directory under your userprofile:
~/yourXBMCusername/.xbmc/userdata/

...Then you must make sure to turn the volume sliders in the alsa mixer all the way up and the volume in xbmc all the way up...otherwise the bitstream data won't trigger your external DAC's.

[Kieron]

Can someone explain how to get it to scrobble to last.fm now... I've had this setup for a while now but I still can't get it scrobbling. Works fine for normal FLACs.

[newb2linux]

I tired some different formats from
http://www.kellyindustries.com/sounds.html

I was able to get all but DTS 5.1 playing in XBMC
All I get is static sound. I see that the Prologic II is 44.1KHZ nad it get passed through to the speakers.

Is there a fix for DTS audio in XBMC in the works?

[TugboatBill]

I tired some different formats from
http://www.kellyindustries.com/sounds.html

I was able to get all but DTS 5.1 playing in XBMC
All I get is static sound. I see that the Prologic II is 44.1KHZ nad it get passed through to the speakers.

Is there a fix for DTS audio in XBMC in the works?

Earlier in this thread the "fix" for static was to turn the volume up in XBMC. Did you try that first?

[newb2linux]

No that doesn't wok either.
I noticed that I am unable to get navigation sounds to go through SPDIF as well. Could this be related?

[VonMagnum]

I've added the playercorefactory.xml file to my two 1st generation Apple TV units via SSH and ".DTS" and ".WAV" DTS files play correctly using the DVDPlayer (albeit losing visuals, of course), but the problem is that my DTS Music CDs are encoded into my iTunes library as Apple Lossless files (so they can be properly tagged, which WAV files do not support), so they have the .M4A extension and thus XBMC doesn't pick them up unless I relabel them (DVDPlayer apparently is able to still figure out how to play Apple Lossless despite the wrong extension labels and DTS then plays back fine as 5.1 audio). The problem with relabeling them is that they then are incorrectly labeled for iTunes and Apple's own player interface.

Is there anything I can add to that file to make it pick up the DTS files despite the .M4A extension without having to use DVDPlayer for ALL AAC files (i.e. then I lose the cool visuals)?

I actually have all my DTS music CD files marked as "DTS" under the genre tag. Is there any way XBMC could be directed to redirect the player based on the genre tag instead of the extension?

EDIT:

I got my genre idea to work! If anyone's interested that uses Apple Lossless files with tagging for DTS music (assuming you use a tag for "genre" as "DTS" like I have; other tags would require modifying this code, but I'm sure something similar for any number of methods should work) you can add this line (or something similar using other tags) just below the <rule filetypes="(dts|wav)" player="DVDPlayer" /> line. In fact, you can use this line INSTEAD of that line or at least without the WAV bit (and therefore then let PaPlayer handle normal WAV files).

<rule field="genre" operator="DTS" player="DVDPlayer" />

Now all my DTS CD files play with DVDPlayer (and therefore output DTS to my receiver) automatically even though they're encapsulated inside Apple Lossless Compression .M4A files. iTunes can tag/re-tag all ALAC DTS files very quickly for you to add a field like that.

EDIT2:

I spoke too soon. All that does is make everything default to DVDplayer. I'm open to suggestions on the correct way (if any) to make it work.

[VonMagnum]

After more testing, I'm not sure what advantage there is in XBMC 10.0 to using PaPlayer for anything. It used to be the visualizer didn't work with the DVDplayer so by playing things like DTS encoded music CD files you lost your light show, but I see in 10.0 it works with either one so in the absence of any information on exactly how to sort out Apple Lossless DTS files (I can't seem to find the right syntax and I'm not expert on XML and finding information on how to program anything beyond these basic examples posted on here for playlists when I want to sort out DTS files by genre type), I'm just defaulting all the music in the home theater room to use DVDPlayer.

[VonMagnum]

BTW, "WAV" DTS CD files wouldn't output via passthrough here on my Apple TV 1st Gen with either DVDPlayer or PAplayer. Both output 2-channel downmixes to the RCA (and HDMI in analog) jacks only (no output what-so-ever through the Toslink optical jack). I just tried adding:

<audio>
<dvdplayerignoredtsinwav>true</dvdplayerignoredtsinwav>
</audio>

to advancedsettings.xml like another thread suggested and it got the DTS output working with WAV to my receiver (and will still output a 2-channel downmix if Paplayer is selected). Unfortunately, WAV DTS files don't play back gapless any more than encapsulated DTS files inside Apple Lossless do (which output to the receiver correctly with DVDPlayer automatically, but go completely unrecognized by PaPlayer).