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E-MU 0404!! DOES play DVD-Audio!!

post #1 of 9
2/9/05 at 11:12pm
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I grabbed the latest version of PowerDVD Deluxe version. I put in one of my DVD-A discs that has DTS/DD and MLP tracks. Just for kicks, i clicked on the MLP track, and guess what, it played! If i do the same in windvd it hisses like playing back a DTS track on a DD-only decoder.

So then I stuck in the pure-MLP disc that comes with the Audigy 2 ZS. Which I can confirm DOES NOT play in my DTS-DD capable dvd-player. And it plays back great!

Please somebody confirm, I suspect it's the Creative drivers, this could be a huge plus for the E-MU cards.
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post #2 of 9
2/9/05 at 11:18pm
Which disc did you use?
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post #3 of 9
2/9/05 at 11:29pm
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http://www.aixrecords.com/catalog/mixtures.html

and whatever disc comes with the Audigy 2 ZS.

What really makes me think it is DVD-Audio is how it would _not_ be able to playback the Audigy2 ZS disc when I use my DD/DTS sony dvd-player, yet my dvd-audio disc with the MPP/DD/DTS tracks from AIX records plays fine, but hisses when I try select MLP from the main menu. Yet on the E-MU it's fine.

This is pretty sweet.
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post #4 of 9
2/9/05 at 11:44pm
PowerDVD 6 will play all DVD-A discs, however it will resample them down to 16/48 when it detects that the disc is copy protected.
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post #5 of 9
2/10/05 at 12:25am
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aww your right, that sucks

Oh well, at least I can still hear my dvd-audio content....
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post #6 of 9
2/10/05 at 1:32am

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Almost any soundcard will play DVD-A with the correct player (PowerDVD and WinDVD both support DVD-A now); some will also output an un-molested bit-perfect signal (up to 96 or 192kHz depending on their capabilities) if the media itself doesn't restrict the digital output (most commercial studios implement this restriction).
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post #7 of 9
2/10/05 at 4:04am
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There's players that won't downsample MLP audio with analog out?
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post #8 of 9
2/10/05 at 5:41pm
Hi Erukian,

i recently wrote a post about listening DVD-Audio in 96khz with the EMU. I also wanted to listen in full quality with PowerDVD6 delux or another software player. But i got an answer: DVD-A listening is only possible in 48khz unless you have an audigy2 which is capable of hardwaredecoding the 96khz DVD-A sound. An EMU supporter also confirmed me that the EMU is not able to play copy protected content in 96khz. There aren't any software players which are able to decode 96khz DVD-A sound!

greets
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post #9 of 9
2/10/05 at 6:38pm
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Yeah, but my AIX records that have PCM/MLP/DD/DTS have the PCM 2 channel at 24/96 which the e-mu does fine (just set patchmix to 96khz), and it's way better sounding than 16/44-48 they way that AIX records and master's their 24/96.
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