DTS-HD 7.1 only detected as 5.1 channels

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bleze Offline
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Im not off topic and yes Im talking about detection of channels and not playback of these which is another topic.

My log is not based on playback but on xbmc's initial scraping of the movie where it extracts the thumbnail and info about content of mkv container when adding movie to library. This is visible if debug logging is enabled.
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By 'we' I meant everyone else, as you notice all of us(except you) were talking about playback.. Smile

I just went through my library and you are quite correct.. XBMC does not report back that there is actually 7.1 audio track available when there is a DTSHD-MA 7.1 track, even though there is one that does exist. XBMC is definitely missing a proper way to pull the AudioStream from a video file. This may change when FFMPEG properly handles DTSHD-MA.

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(This post was last modified: 2012-08-09 03:03 by giftie.)
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DTS 7.1 decoding is not supported by ffmpeg, no questions. If you want 7.1 DTS-MA you need to use passthrough, not LPCM.

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bleze Offline
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gnif, I know this now. But I still think that XBMC should detect that there are 7.1 channels and not 5.1 - even if it cannot decode it to LPCM. ffmpeg seems to be working on decoding DTS HD, so maybe some day in the near future we will have DTS-HD to LPCM in XBMC.

The open-source MediaInfo can detect all channels and way more... http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
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(2012-08-15 08:45)bleze Wrote:  gnif, I know this now. But I still think that XBMC should detect that there are 7.1 channels and not 5.1 - even if it cannot decode it to LPCM. ffmpeg seems to be working on decoding DTS HD, so maybe some day in the near future we will have DTS-HD to LPCM in XBMC.

The open-source MediaInfo can detect all channels and way more... http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

I would also like to see XBMC detect/report 7.1 channels for DTS-MA tracks. It only seems to indicate the core 5.1 track when reporting meta info for a movie file.
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Any upcoming news about detecting/reporting 7.1?

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Maybe with the new ffmpeg version (1.1) after frodo, since one point of its changelog (http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=...=Changelog ) is
Quote:- DTS-HD demuxer

EDIT:

I compared the output of an old version and a new one. It seems that channel count of DTS-HD MA tracks is still wrong.

DTS-HD MA
Quote:ffmpeg version 0.10.2.git Copyright © 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers built on May 29 2012 15:55:23 with gcc 4.5.3
Stream #0:1[0x1100]: Audio: dts (DTS-HD MA) ([134][0][0][0] / 0x0086), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 1536 kb/s
Quote:ffmpeg version N-49069-gc74d465 Copyright © 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers built on Jan 20 2013 23:39:19 with gcc 4.7.2 (GCC)
Stream #0:1[0x1100]: Audio: dts (DTS-HD MA) ([134][0][0][0] / 0x0086), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 1536 kb/s

DTS-HD HRA
Quote:ffmpeg version 0.10.2.git Copyright © 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers built on May 29 2012 15:55:23 with gcc 4.5.3
Stream #0:1[0x1100]: Audio: dts (DTS-HD HRA) ([133][0][0][0] / 0x0085), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 1536 kb/s
Quote:ffmpeg version N-49069-gc74d465 Copyright © 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers built on Jan 20 2013 23:39:19 with gcc 4.7.2 (GCC)
Stream #0:1[0x1100]: Audio: dts (DTS-HD HRA) ([133][0][0][0] / 0x0085), 48000 Hz, 7.1, fltp, 1536 kb/s
(This post was last modified: 2013-01-21 14:52 by ace20022.)
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