DVD audio from computer - possible and what software?
Aug 3, 2003 at 9:33 PM Post #17 of 24
Yep, iTunes is a Mac program at the moment, but Apple is still holding to its claim that the iTunes Music Store will be available on Windows by the end of the year so you won't have to suffer with BuyMusic.com and pressplay and all the other failed attempts at copying it. It's a great program that makes managing my 10,000 MP3s a breeze, unfortunately, it's current version does not support DVD-A yet.
 
Nov 12, 2003 at 4:58 PM Post #20 of 24
It looks like they allow high resolution playback ONLY on Audigy 2. Which already has that support out of the box. So essentially for everyone else it's useless (unless you count 44kHz playback from DVD-A as acceptable).
 
Nov 12, 2003 at 5:52 PM Post #21 of 24
I wonder how can Creative get the licence while anothers can't.. maybe it's because their software actually doesn't play it in hi-res format or the Audigy's DSP messes the audio stream somehow, which is definitely not impossible.. in fact it messes almost anything except for DD/DTS pass-through.. another possibility is that part of the decoding is done in Audigy's DSP, not completely in software, but rather on the card itself.. why are they bothering me with such stuff?? I can easily get myself some S/PDIF transmitter and steal ALL their hyper-super-ultra protected hi-rez data without any problem.. they're just doing it harder
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Nov 13, 2003 at 2:20 AM Post #22 of 24
but rather on the card itself.. [/quote

That is quite possible, and quite logical as it would explain why they got the license (i.e. there is no way to get decrypted data after the card has decoded it - no software way that is). You could still grab the decoded data straight from the pins of the DAC chips because it's not an all-in-one-chip solution (which would indeed make it fully tamperproof), add some transceivers and send it to external DAC(s) ("s" because you need 6+ D/A channels). In fact with audigy 2 platinum or extigy, depending on how data is transferred from the main card to the daughtercard / external box, it might be even simpler.

But easy it ain't and even an advanced hacker wouldn't bother doing it, not to mention need for external DACs... Not worth the trouble.
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Nov 13, 2003 at 5:32 AM Post #23 of 24
well, you can record those three stereo S/PDIF streams with three soundcards and whoala - you got the DVD-A content in full quality with no protection, just FLAC it and you don't need to care about it.. and in fact I don't care much about the multichannel track, but rather the stereo one, so one modified player, one soundcard w/ bit perfect digital in and we're ready
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