Yes I was hoping the project was already going in this direction and that implementing actual DTS decoding was only a step on the way.samygo1 wrote:I noticed a couple of people mentioned it and it seems to have been missed, but is there any possibility of a hack to enable DTS passthrough via optical output? My receiver supports DTS and so it would save on CPU usage etc
For most of us it would make extremely much more sense to just skip the decoding and output the DTS signal to our dts-capable surround systems.
Now i reallize that a good number of people do not own a DTS-capable surround system and un the end I guess there would have to be one version for those who do not own a DTS-capable sound system and one version for those who do. The CPU-hogging decoding/downmixing operation would only be needed for those who do not own a DTS-capable sound system.
Right now there is only silence in the DTS capable system (no signal from the optical output) if you try to play movies without the hack (TV just goes "Audio encoding not supported")
If you load the hack I will have sound through the optical output (but it will be downmixed stereo not DTS).
By the way when the stereo is downmixed with the current patch it seems that whatever sound is coded to go through the center speaker (typically the dialogue of the movie) is much weaker-sounding than the environmental sounds (typically mainly heard through left+right front speakers or sometimes by the back surround channels) - so the sound effects are really loud while the dialog sometimes is hard to hear.
Thanks for your wonderful efforts so far! What you already have accomplished is nothing but amazing!
Now please give us passthrough DTS to optical
