Dts Decoder For Windows
Publisher's Description. The Windows 10 Codec Pack is a free easy to install bundle of codecs/filters/splitters used for playing back movie and music files. After installation you will be able to play 99. 9% of files through your media player, along with VCDs, SVCDs, and DVDs. Windows 7 Codec Pack: The Windows 7 Codec Pack has been created to make installing major codec's, filters, plug-ins and splitters a breeze. Dolby-TrueHD, DTS-HD Master etc. Since upgrading to Windows 10 I haven't seen any support for HD audio bitstreaming. Looking through the properties of my sound devices (trying to use Nvidia HDMI), only Dolby Digital, Dolby digital Plus and DTS Audio are listed.
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Hey!
I've been searching the internets for answers to my questions for some time now, but all my findings have been very inconclusive.. Either it seems I'm trying to do something that no-one else in the world has ever wanted to do before, which would be pretty weird, considering what it is, or the answer must be so obviously simple that I'm completely missing something. That would also be strange in this case, since I've been into HiFi and home-cinema audio for over ten years, and like the technical side of it. I'm also good at my PC-stuff, been building my own for many years, and am just as interested in that.
Anyhow, firstly, what I'm trying to do, and I can explain why I want to do this in just this way later:
I want to take a digital surround audio stream, either Dolby Digital or DTS (needs to support both, and work with the newer HD-formats) from for example an Xbox or TV-box. Not sure here if I need PCM, or only AC3? This over an optical cable. Into either some dedicated decoder, or into an optical input on my PC. Decode the signal, and get the surround outputted via preferably RCA connectors, but 3,5 mm jacks would also work. Then into my analogue 5.1 input on my amp, and onto my speakers. So:
DD/DTS - Optical - PC/Decoder - Analogue 5.1 RCA or 3,5 mm - Amp - Speakers.
Now, I have an optical input on my Creative Sound Blaster Z, but that only supports stereo audio, and can't decode DD/DTS. Seems a few older Sound Blasters and a few other sound cards may support decoding, but I still haven't seen any solid answers as to what will work, and without loads of tweaking with different software and stuff, without severe lag in the audio-stream. Dedicated home cinema surround-processors are awesome, and do exactly what I need, but they are very expensive, since they are almost always high-end, and many times cost as much or more than the flagship surround-receivers... Also, they have limits, they do get old. And computers are a lot more flexible and easier to adapt to new technologies, be it a new connector or audio format. So I'd rather invest in my PC for this as well.
If you need to know why I have to have analogue 5.1, it's pretty simple, my amp is not a home-cinema receiver, but rather a complex balanced stereo-amp, in pretty much the upper HiFi segment. Balanced meaning, to simplify this, that it separates the signal all the way, effectively doubling the components in the amp. So in balanced 2-ch mode, there are 4 power-amps in use. The manufacturer then had a genius idea (that never caught on with others) to add one more extra power amp, and 5.1 analogue inputs. And the ability to switch between unbalanced 5 channel mode and fully balanced 2-channel using the remote control. So in a way what it is is an integrated balanced 2-channel HiFi amp, that plays in the league of the pros, but it's also with the press of a button a very competent 5-channel amp, without any digital processing.
But enough of that, there are others who want analogue surround solutions for different reasons, so I know I'm not completely alone in this.
What would I need to make my PC a working digital audio decoder, using external sources? Seems odd that it should be so hard to find this in 2014, but oh well..
All help would be greatly appreciated! Hope you made it through all that text... =)
I've been searching the internets for answers to my questions for some time now, but all my findings have been very inconclusive.. Either it seems I'm trying to do something that no-one else in the world has ever wanted to do before, which would be pretty weird, considering what it is, or the answer must be so obviously simple that I'm completely missing something. That would also be strange in this case, since I've been into HiFi and home-cinema audio for over ten years, and like the technical side of it. I'm also good at my PC-stuff, been building my own for many years, and am just as interested in that.
Anyhow, firstly, what I'm trying to do, and I can explain why I want to do this in just this way later:
I want to take a digital surround audio stream, either Dolby Digital or DTS (needs to support both, and work with the newer HD-formats) from for example an Xbox or TV-box. Not sure here if I need PCM, or only AC3? This over an optical cable. Into either some dedicated decoder, or into an optical input on my PC. Decode the signal, and get the surround outputted via preferably RCA connectors, but 3,5 mm jacks would also work. Then into my analogue 5.1 input on my amp, and onto my speakers. So:
DD/DTS - Optical - PC/Decoder - Analogue 5.1 RCA or 3,5 mm - Amp - Speakers.
Now, I have an optical input on my Creative Sound Blaster Z, but that only supports stereo audio, and can't decode DD/DTS. Seems a few older Sound Blasters and a few other sound cards may support decoding, but I still haven't seen any solid answers as to what will work, and without loads of tweaking with different software and stuff, without severe lag in the audio-stream. Dedicated home cinema surround-processors are awesome, and do exactly what I need, but they are very expensive, since they are almost always high-end, and many times cost as much or more than the flagship surround-receivers... Also, they have limits, they do get old. And computers are a lot more flexible and easier to adapt to new technologies, be it a new connector or audio format. So I'd rather invest in my PC for this as well.
If you need to know why I have to have analogue 5.1, it's pretty simple, my amp is not a home-cinema receiver, but rather a complex balanced stereo-amp, in pretty much the upper HiFi segment. Balanced meaning, to simplify this, that it separates the signal all the way, effectively doubling the components in the amp. So in balanced 2-ch mode, there are 4 power-amps in use. The manufacturer then had a genius idea (that never caught on with others) to add one more extra power amp, and 5.1 analogue inputs. And the ability to switch between unbalanced 5 channel mode and fully balanced 2-channel using the remote control. So in a way what it is is an integrated balanced 2-channel HiFi amp, that plays in the league of the pros, but it's also with the press of a button a very competent 5-channel amp, without any digital processing.
But enough of that, there are others who want analogue surround solutions for different reasons, so I know I'm not completely alone in this.
What would I need to make my PC a working digital audio decoder, using external sources? Seems odd that it should be so hard to find this in 2014, but oh well..
All help would be greatly appreciated! Hope you made it through all that text... =)