[MPlayer-users] Ripping dvd with DTS audio

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:34:39AM +0200, Michael Iatrou wrote:
> When the date was Thursday 24 March 2005 02:08, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:59:33AM +0200, Michael Iatrou wrote:
> > > When the date was Wednesday 23 March 2005 23:42, D Richard Felker III 
> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:08:22PM +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> > > > > Has anyone succeeded in ripping dvd to avi while keeping dts audio
> > > > > track? I have several dvds with dts soundtracks which sound really
> > > > > better than ac3 ones (most likely due to the fact that ac3 ones use
> > > > > 384k bitrate and dts use 768k - I wonder why they can't make one 640k
> > > > > ac3 track instead?).
> > > >
> > > > Because it's all about marketing propaganda. Audiophile newbs think
> > > > DTS==god because it has dolby in the name. DVDs with DTS are actually
> > > > immensely lower quality because they've wasted almost a megabit/sec
> > > > that should have gone to the video.
> > >
> > > DTS stands for "Digital Theater Systems", where did you see "Dolby" in
> > > this name? In many cases (I could say in most) DTS stream _is_ better
> > > than DD (Dolby Digital, here comes the "Dolby") or at least different! Of
> > > course, you
> >
> > Marketing stuff about DTS has dolby all over the place. Or am I wrong
> > about seeing "Dolby DTS"?? Maybe so; I try to avoid that crap as much
> > as possible.
> 
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> 
> I am sorry, I am not going to make a conversation about marketing stuff, 
> conspiracy theories etc. There is nothing more I should say, anyone who 
> doesn't have a hearing problem and does have a decent HT, can easily 
> understand what I am talking about.

It's known that DTS soundtracks are better than the AC3 ones on DVDs
that include both, and not disputed. What's disputed is the reason.
There is nothing good about the DTS codec; it's just encoded from a
better master. AC3 may be slightly worse, but AAC is surely
significantly better, and I expect vorbis is significantly better too
if the >2 channel coupling stuff was ever fixed..

Rich