Secondly, even if it’s the case that your player and receiver can deal with the lossy (“core”) DTS part of the audio stream (no sure thing – see, once again, the PS4), it is likely that the extra chunks used to restore the missing parts of the audio to recreate the lossless audio stream (added using the “XLL” extension – see section 8 of this document) will be – at best – ignored, as will extra channels beyond 6.1 (see the “XXCH” extension in section 6.4 of the same document). It also lacks some features of FLAC, including error checking.ĭTS-MA has several disadvantages. LPCM is fine, but larger than FLAC due to it’s uncompressed nature (and thus takes up more bandwidth when sending over a network). DTS-X and Dolby Atmos are not covered here, as they are very different, in that rather than being studio-mixed around a certain speaker layout they are mixed at the point of, and to match, the listener’s environment (with the exception of a >=7.1 channel track to provide ambience). I’ve converted all of these to FLAC for almost all of my rips. Why would I do this? There are three lossless formats generally in wide use at present, uncompressed Linear PCM, and compressed DTS-MA and Dolby TrueHD.
OSMC RASPBERRY PI 2 MEDIAINFO HOW TO
So here is a guide on how to create archive versions of your media files containing lossless versions of the soundtracks. The Playstation 4, for instance, won’t even play DTS over the network, let alone DTS-MA or TrueHD. The convenience of being able to play via any of your screens over the network (or just from a USB hard drive) is a giant leap in terms of convenience over carrying huge amounts of DVD/Bluray discs around (literally around the world in my case, having just moved back from Australia after 12+ years – I have crates of them still in storage in Sydney).įormat support can however be spotty, especially when dealing with lossless soundtracks.
Having just moved back to the U.K., and being theoretically a gentleman of leisure for a couple of weeks, it’s now – if ever.ĭLNA is fantastically useful.
OSMC RASPBERRY PI 2 MEDIAINFO SERIES
NOTE : This is the first in a series of about a decades-worth of notes (not an exaggeration) I’ve been meaning to type up and store somewhere, but haven’t had the/any free time.
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