2008-11-08, 00:13
I'm seconding this proposal. Very smart and wife friendly feature: as stereo output is directly plugged to the tv in my case: she has nothing to deal with the receiver, most of the time
slippy Wrote:Hello,
I was searching the forums and could not find an answer to this.
I have got a H.264 movie which is 700MB in size. The video track is 560MB and the audio track is 140MB. The audio track is 5.1 AAC at 160kb/s. The quality of the movie is incredible. It looks like DVD quality. Now I found that ac3filter http://ac3filter.net with this installed you can take 5.1 AAC and encode it in real time to Dolby Digital 5.1 through to your receiver. AC3filter is also good if I want to watch movies that are in DTS, as they can be encoded in real time to Dolby Digital 5.1 as well. This helps as my surround sound receiver can only do Dolby Digital and PCM.
Now I wonder if XBMC supports this? If not can it be implemented into the next build?
I would really like to hear your views on this
Much appreciated
Many thanks in advance
spotfek Wrote:I asked the question of realtime transcoding DTS to AC3 and got a reply saying its on their todo list!!!
Dam0 Wrote:im not sure if its been fixed/implemented already, but when i play a video with AAC 5.1, if i select audio menu from context menu, it shows 5.1
not sure if this means menu is telling me source details, or output details??
regards,
Dam0
slippy Wrote:Who did you ask? Did you email?
How long ago did you ask?
Dam0 Wrote:Slippy,
skin is PMIII, and yes i use SPDIF.
however, i think playback is still stereo cause sounds like sub and surrounds are silent.
i ended up using mkvextract to demux, then loaded the *.AAC into nero soundtrax and exported it as ac3. then remux using mkvmerge, and now i have working mkv with ac3.
luckily for me i only had 3 x mkv's with AAC, so was no big deal for me. hope this helps
regards,
Dam0