Decoding CD's digitally.
John Cox
my Sony STRDB 940.
If a player can send a digital stream from a DVD to my receiver, is it
possible for this to be done with CD?
Hitachi DVD 2500
Hollywood Real Magic decoder Card
STRDB 940
Connected coaxially to dig output.
Sounds simple but I can't work it out.
JCC.
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Stephen Childs
: I have a DVD on my PC connected through my Hollywood Magic decoder card to
: my Sony STRDB 940.
: If a player can send a digital stream from a DVD to my receiver, is it
: possible for this to be done with CD?
: Hitachi DVD 2500
: Hollywood Real Magic decoder Card
: STRDB 940
: Connected coaxially to dig output.
The RealMagic driver won't output CD audio on the SPDIF. However, your
DVD drive probably has a digital output on it already. It will be a
two pin plug similar to the four-pin analog audio out that you can
connect to your soundcard.
Until recently, I was using a hacked together cable that took the
output from this to a phono which I then connected to my amp (Yamaha
RXV795A). Apparently the output voltage from the DVD-ROM drive is
higher than that in the SPDIF spec, but I never had any problems. I
have a standalone CD player with digital out now, so I don't use this
method any more.
Stephen
Kingsley Smith
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Alternatively you could get a soundcard like the Creative SBlive cards that
have a digital output, although they aren't as direct as the method
described above.
This way you would hear all of the digital sound output from your PC,
Including midi,MP3, PC, CD-audio and Dolby Digital (With the right software)
Mac
of it. what software makes this possible?
do you also know what type of connection is required to use the digital out
of the card to a yamaha dspa5
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david
Kingsley Smith
It depends on which SB live card you have, on mine it's a phono digital out
just like all my other equipment.
But I think that a lot of them have a 3.5mm output for Dolby Digital out.
To use this you will need some DVD playback software like PowerDVD, a 3.5mm
to a phono lead and a Dolby Digital source throw either a DVD or downloading
a AC3. file of DVD VOB file (I have all the Dolby Digital trailers on my
machine)
You can even encode your own Dolby Digital stuff using a program call Sonic
Foundry Dolby Digital encoder
This site has all the software you will need
http://q-bert.x2.nu/
I will soon have a section on my site describing how to do all this
www.avland.co.uk
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Kingsley Smith
I forgot to mention that you will need to get the latest version of
creative's liveware, unless your card already has 2.1 or above
I think if you dowload Liveware 3 and PowerDVD 2.55 you can even get DTS
output, but I haven't got a DTS amp so I have never tested this.
www.sblive.com (I think) is the play to download the latest version of
liveware, they also will sell you a optical add-on board for your card for
£50 This lets you output using a standard toslink fibre optic cable (it also
lets you input sound using a optical connection)
There are loads of other cool stuff that you can do as well.
If you get a program called DeCSS (Banned) this allows you to copy a DVD
from you DVD-rom to your hard drive, or individual sections of the film.
(That's why it's banned, because it crack the protection on DVD so that you
can make a perfect digital copy)
DeCSS only works with Windows 98, it doesn't work with Win2000 or ME
You can then get various tools for editing down these VOB files (Video
OBject) these are where the actual streams of video and sound are stored.
There is a very niffty program called VOBSnoopy that lets you split up these
files into there original content. So you get .m2v (Mpeg 2 video) ands .AC3
files (Both of which powerDVD will play quite happily
So you can get your favourite sections in films and bungh them on your PC to
impress your mates.
I get all the Dolby Digital trailers to play in a row.
I just wish somebody would hurry up and bring out a cheap DVD-RW(9GB) drive
so that I can transfer all my videos and laserdiscs to DVD.
I already have "Get Carter" and "Baseketball" films on my 20Gb hard drive.
(Both encoded in AC3 by me:-) )
Mac
ViNNY
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> I just wish somebody would hurry up and bring out a cheap DVD-RW(9GB)
drive
> so that I can transfer all my videos and laserdiscs to DVD.
Won't work on a standalone DVD player though... you'd be better just buying
an extra hard drive :-)
-Vin