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2017-01-04, 16:19
(This post was last modified: 2017-01-04, 16:19 by fritsch.)
How would user know what is in the file? What about a stranger that downloads the links above? See this is the big problem here: A container and totally not known what data is in there, without the wv giving any hint about the bitstream. That's the danger, the harm the insanity ... and that's why I rather say: if it works, it works - but we don't support it.
Edit: In the wav, we find DTS correctly and know about it. So we can easily decode and output.
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It still works. There is nothing, absolutley nothing changed. As long as you don't touch your volume -> all fine. It was never different.
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If this works for you, then by all means do use it. It's seem your receiver also detects what is "probably an encoded signal" and then automatically mutes the volume, so that gives you an extra security layer.
A similar problem manifests when playing DSD files; DoP (DSD over PCM) is basically sent as 24/176 pcm (for DSD64) but the 8 MSB are unused so the signal will always be -48db. Lately DAC's are beginning to support "native DSD" , which are sent as 32/88 and upwards. (It is twice as effective as DoP) Here the whole datapath is used for DSD data, but since there is no way for the DAC to signal this capability, the VID/PID of the device has to be hardcoded into ALSA itself.
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I always convert DTS music to FLAC which can be tagged and used in Kodi without problems. I'm not sure how you are converting DTS to .wv but I'd suggest there's no extra effort to convert to FLAC unless the audio is DTS-HDMA which is a two step process for me. (Decrypting the bluray then converting to FLAC - but you probably need a two step process to get .wv too, right?)
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Just to clarify, DTS is a lossy format. If you convert to flac, .wv or whatever, you're converting to a lossless format. That is the same as converting mp3 to flac etc. : A cardinal sin. As long as you do this for your own inscrutable purposes, no harm done - but please never ever distribute such files. Btw, foobar2000 can directly tag .dts, .wavdts and .wav.