[furii]

No it's the core that is getting decoded to PCM. There is no free decoder for DTS-MA, there is for TrueHD, which it why you are getting what you are.

well that's certainly disappointing, though not surprising. too bad 90% of blurays come with dts-hd. thanks for the info.

The main aim for "audioengine" in this context is the ability to bitstream the lossless track for decoding in your receiver, nearly all receivers these days can decode TrueHD and DTS-MA even the ones at the cheaper end.

Your other option would be to use something like eac3to and convert the DTS-MA to FLAC which would give you a bit perfect audio track and mux that into an MKV with the video stream along with any subs\additional audio tracks etc.To do that is quite simple but obviously it wouldn't work for playing a bluray and you also need the Arcsoft DTS decoder that eac3to interfaces with for a bit perfect decode.

oh i'm well aware. as i said in my previous post i was just attempting to work around the audio dropouts with hd audio tracks. i'm sure gnif and company will get it fixed up. i'd also be willing to bet that there are plenty of people with a non-hd audio capable receiver who wouldn't have minded being able to put off an upgrade by decoding to pcm.

as for flac, that works most of the time but i also posted that i was getting a crash with a 6.1 flac track. i've tried a few 5.1 flac tracks and those seem to work ok. after a few remuxes though i got tired of going through all that and just decided to mux the hd tracks in the hopes of someday being able to bitstream them to my receiver