Re: HD Audio Codecs and the Windows Platform
- From: cwdjrxyz <spamtrap2@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:14:05 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 21, 6:38 pm, SPEnthusiast
<SPEnthusi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why can't I rip DVD-Audio discs using Windows Media Player? WMP was one of
the first players that supported 24-bit audio. And for that matter, why can't
I rip DVDs using WMP? How do I rip audio off DVDs, I just want the audio in
MP3 format, not the video content.
I record in DVD-Audio which is a standard for recording audio on a DVD
disc , often at 24 bit and in multiple track surround. However the
standard also allows you to record just CD-standard format audio in 2
tracks, in which case the recorded DVD-Audio disc will hold perhaps 6
or 7 typical CDs worth of sound without compression. This is nice for
recording multiple disc sets. True DVD-Audio is not being used much
anymore - it never really sold very well. However you can still find a
few stand alone DVD players that can play it, and one or two high end
DVD player programs including some Cyberlink ones will play a DVD-
Audio disc on a computer. A basic program to record and burn in DVD-
Audio will cost about US$ 100 from Minnetonka audio, and programs that
will add video content, menus, etc will up the price to several
hundreds of dollars. Then you may need multi-channel editors, etc, and
the bill for programs can run into the thousands.
Commercial DVD-Audio disc are even more highly encrypted than
commercial DVDs. Even hacker programs that are easy to use do not seem
to be common for this format, likely because the format is being
little used. However some DVD-Audio discs also contain a conventional
surround audio track, and in a few cases this track is not encrypted
and will play on an ordinary DVD player - but it is at normal
resolution.
There are programs that will record mp3 to a DVD disc. One is the pro
version of Easy CD-DV Extractor, and the program price is fairly
reasonable considering all of the things it will do.
There are programs that will rip either audio or video only from a
video that is not encrypted.
Is there any work in progress at Microsoft to bring HD audio codecs such as
Dolby TrueHD or the venerable DTS-HD Master Audio to Windows? If not, why not?
Why doesn't the XBox, even with its HDMI output, support these HD audio
codecs? And why don't PCs have true HDMI output that support these HD audio
codecs? Most video cards I've seen have S-Video out, and they call it HDMI,
only because 1900x1080 video resolution is supported. HD implies HD audio..
What ever happened to the RTP-MIDI effort at Microsoft? I searched for
"RTP-MIDI" atwww.microsoft.coma couple of days ago and nothing turned up. I
would've imagined that Microsoft would want next generation musicians to use
Windows as their platform to vent their creative output.
I doubt if Microsoft will add many of the formats you mention. The
reason is that most of the formats mentioned are not used much by the
average computer user, and Microsoft likely would have to pay usage
rights for several of the formats.
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