DVD-Audio on EMU 0404 card

[redshifter]

by dvd-audio i'm talking about the dvd-a packed pcm tracks at 48/96/192 khz.

now if you know what i'm talking about, i have an emu 0404 card and powerdvd 7 max playback software (supports ppcm (dvd-a)). how can i get it to play the high-rez tracks on dvd-a discs. dts and dolby work fine. i want hi-rez. i can select the individual .oab file and see it outputting hi-rez, but no sound.

if have my emu 0404 set up for music listening at the correct frequency (48 khz for example for a 48 khz hi rez track).

are there any software programs that will let me play dvd-a on the emu 0404.

thx.

 

[Jasper994]

You really can't use the 0404 to playback MLP encoded DVD-A at full resolution. Creative has payed for the rights to playback DVD-A at full rez for their Soundblaster line only. Yes, your DVD playback software supports DVD-A and will decode the Hi-Rez content, but it will downmix it to 48kHz unless you are using it in combination with a Soundblaster or if you are using a DVD-A that doesn't use MLP. In my experience the latter is limited to a handful of classical releases (such as those released by AIX) and a couple other random discs (Queen - Night at the Opera is the only one I'm familiar with).

 

[redshifter]

argh. and i supposed there is no software mlp decoder.

thanks jasper994, you answered my question and then some!

 

[Stephen_Ri]

You can, however, rip DVD-As to your hard drive, with a little effort that I think is well worth the convenience of computer playback. I've done it with my Sinatra at the Sands and now have it in 192khz 24-bit stereo. I believe the instructions I posted on audio asylum still work for new discs--it worked for the Talking Heads Brick:
If you're trying to rip full quality DVD-As, it can be done, as suggested earlier; here's some info that may help you out: You'll need to download (unless by chance you already have) a version of WinDVD 6. This is not the current version, which has dropped DVD-A support the last I heard because of the exploit. You'll have to get it with a keygen from a file sharing community if you don't happen to have a full version. Then you'll need a file dvdaudio.rar which is 128 kilobytes. Three different tools are contained within along with readme's. Ripping isn't difficult--the software essentially intercepts the DVD-A data decoded by WinDVD and routs it to your hard drive instead of your sound card (which would have to be an audigy 2 if not for this program). It works great--I've never programmed a thing or even built a webpage and I figured out how to run it (with the "run" command line in windows) with the help of the readme in less than an hour. The disc I ripped turned out to be nearly 5gig but is compressible losslessly (by 30-40%) with wavpack. 24bit 192khz sounds great if you've got the soundcard to play it back with (mine actually only goes up to 96khz @24bit). Newer DVD-A's made in the last few months may not allow this ripping process to occur--I've eonly ripped the one as an experiment and haven't tried any recent releases.

 

[redshifter]

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Originally Posted by Stephen_Ri /img/forum/go_quote.gif You can, however, rip DVD-As to your hard drive, with a little effort that I think is well worth the convenience of computer playback. I've done it with my Sinatra at the Sands and now have it in 192khz 24-bit stereo. I believe the instructions I posted on audio asylum still work for new discs--it worked for the Talking Heads Brick: If you're trying to rip full quality DVD-As, it can be done, as suggested earlier; here's some info that may help you out: You'll need to download (unless by chance you already have) a version of WinDVD 6. This is not the current version, which has dropped DVD-A support the last I heard because of the exploit. You'll have to get it with a keygen from a file sharing community if you don't happen to have a full version. Then you'll need a file dvdaudio.rar which is 128 kilobytes. Three different tools are contained within along with readme's. Ripping isn't difficult--the software essentially intercepts the DVD-A data decoded by WinDVD and routs it to your hard drive instead of your sound card (which would have to be an audigy 2 if not for this program). It works great--I've never programmed a thing or even built a webpage and I figured out how to run it (with the "run" command line in windows) with the help of the readme in less than an hour. The disc I ripped turned out to be nearly 5gig but is compressible losslessly (by 30-40%) with wavpack. 24bit 192khz sounds great if you've got the soundcard to play it back with (mine actually only goes up to 96khz @24bit). Newer DVD-A's made in the last few months may not allow this ripping process to occur--I've eonly ripped the one as an experiment and haven't tried any recent releases.

thanks! i researched the whole ppcmripper.exe route before, but decided i'm not interested in ripping dvd-a. besides, doom9 and other sites had to take down the software or lawsuite.