DVD-Audiobahn

Posted by ted_b (A) on November 16, 2009 at 07:09:49

In Reply to: RE: Can you rip DVD-A tracks as WAVS or FLACS? posted by Spendor Harbeth on October 26, 2009 at 21:39:23

A few things.
1) I have a pretty complete how-to on this over on my HiRez Circle at Audio Circle. Feel free to check it out. I've ripped (as have many others) dozens of DVD_A's to their native (24/88.2, 24/96 or 24/192) resolutions for playback via a DAC. But yes, it involves using DVDAexplorer (for true DVD-Audio discs) and DVDAudio Extractor (for DVD-Video discs that contain hirez material).
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=69151.new;topicseen#new

(NOTE: Audio Circle seems to be down since early Sun morning, and although moderator of one of the subforums, the HiRez forum, I still know nothing more than this regarding the outage)

2) When you use DVDAExplorer and see (in Audio-TS) the group that is listed as Lf-rf-ls-rs or lfe-c then you have the wrong group/title section. There is one below or above it that is listed as 2 channel (l-r). If there is none (Natalie merchant, Beatles Love, etc.) then check off the box that says "gfet stereo downmix" and DVDAExplorer will use the SMART table on the disc to produce a very good downmixed stereo rip.
3) The Squeezebox you refer to will only play natively 24/48 max; everything else playable but is downconverted by SOX (assuming you have latest SqueezeBox Server loaded). The 24/96 capable Squeeze players are Touch and Transporter.
4) The Oppos will, in fact, circumvent DVD-A's old hurdles and output MLP (packed PCM) via the digital outs. They are 16 bit and max 16/192 (assuming you set LPCM for 192 in the set up menu).

Edits: 11/16/09   11/16/09   11/16/09