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DTS Decoder Software Not Hardware in Movie Players...

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This may not mean much to some people, but to dealers like me it explains a lot.

I have been told that when outputting DTS from a movie player (over the digital outputs obviously) the analog audio outputs go dark since the decoder is software not hardware based.

You might say, so what. Well, most of our systems are large distributed audio and video systems and this is a problem for non surround zones that the movie player is feeding. Usually we will have one or more surround sound zones in a house and the other audio and video zones will be stereo. We feed the digital audio to the surround sound processors and analog audio to the whole house audio matrix switches. Now, when a DTS disc comes on it won't be heard in the stereo zones - even if they are video zones.

Solution is to set Dolby Digital as the default and not DTS. Or get a dedicated movie player for each surround sound zone and another for the whole house audio zones and set their default outputs accordingly.

Good luck.
 
Another solution, although its not as elegant is to get a cheap DTS decoder, say an inexpensive receiver and have that matrixed into the system.
 
DTS & DD

I experienced that very earlier on, and what's more annoying is that the menus are not in DTS like the movie, so you can hear the audio over the menu. That had me stumped for some time.
 
The audio being in one format for menus and another for the movie is all DVDs. I think most are 2.0 for the menus.

best regards,
Jerry
 
I found that this also applies to HDMI. I don't think the movie player outputs 5.1 over HDMI, it's like a 2 channel downmix. Makes sense if you are connecting to a plasma or LCD and using the built in speakers, but if going HDMI to an AV Receiver, you would also need to run either coax or toslink for 5.1
 
WOW. I just ran into this problem - for the first time I tried getting audio from my Movie Player 2500 through HDMI rather than the digital output and I found that I could only get 2 channel audio. So I take it no K Player can output multichannel audio over HDMI? That's pretty weak.
 
The FAQ section on the K website confirms that 5.1 is not available over HDMI:

Q: Do the HDMI outputs support 5.1 surround sound?
A: No, the HDMI outputs on the Movie Player and the Movie Player 2 carry video and PCM stereo audio only. When using HDMI for video, you can use digital coaxial, digital optical, or analog stereo outputs for audio
 
While I doubt this affect DD and DTS, HDMI has a lot of jitter on it which is why I setup my player from the beginning with the video over HDMI but the audio over coax.
 
No 5.1 over HDMI

I too found this by accident and spent a bit of time trying to find out why as I had the player plugged into a Denon receiver which I was not familiar with and thought I had a problem with the receiver. :)

I would expect that this will be corrected in the Blu-Ray player when it is released.
 
Byron said:
I would expect that this will be corrected in the Blu-Ray player when it is released.
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Yes, we all expect this to be the case.:)

Jim
 
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