Hello everybody!
Thanks to our member Ge Someone, I was able to properly set up my 7.1 sound system yesterday night. I'm already enjoying video games, but now comes the next challenge! Since I play all my music from my computer, I'm now trying to rip the 7.1 audio from the few 7.1 discs I have (Lichtmond, Ambra) to FLAC files.
When I open these discs in e.g. MakeMKV, it only shows me a bunch of 5.1 tracks to choose from though! I'm presuming that "higher" formats like 7.1 or 9.1 are actually in reality 5.1 streams with somehow encoded information for the additional channels. Now, when I ripped them to MKV or FLAC, I really only got 5.1 channels out of them. Even the audio tracks that are labelled "7.1" seem to only be in 5.1 when I play them in VLC - at least, I don't think I hear anything discrete in the side speakers, only the transitional front/rear blend that Ubuntu does when playing 5.1 sources in 7.1.
Since I don't have a real BluRay player, I can't listen to the 7.1 track to check how it "should" sound, but it looks very much to me like I really just have classic 5.1 files here.
Has anybody been successful at ripping 7.1 or higher to audio or MKV files and playing it back properly on PC? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
(bonus question: what happens when I play back an Auro 9.1 track on a 7.1 system? It's matrixed down to 7.1 channels, right? So the extra information from the height channels is mixed into the sides?)
Thanks to our member Ge Someone, I was able to properly set up my 7.1 sound system yesterday night. I'm already enjoying video games, but now comes the next challenge! Since I play all my music from my computer, I'm now trying to rip the 7.1 audio from the few 7.1 discs I have (Lichtmond, Ambra) to FLAC files.
When I open these discs in e.g. MakeMKV, it only shows me a bunch of 5.1 tracks to choose from though! I'm presuming that "higher" formats like 7.1 or 9.1 are actually in reality 5.1 streams with somehow encoded information for the additional channels. Now, when I ripped them to MKV or FLAC, I really only got 5.1 channels out of them. Even the audio tracks that are labelled "7.1" seem to only be in 5.1 when I play them in VLC - at least, I don't think I hear anything discrete in the side speakers, only the transitional front/rear blend that Ubuntu does when playing 5.1 sources in 7.1.
Since I don't have a real BluRay player, I can't listen to the 7.1 track to check how it "should" sound, but it looks very much to me like I really just have classic 5.1 files here.
Has anybody been successful at ripping 7.1 or higher to audio or MKV files and playing it back properly on PC? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
(bonus question: what happens when I play back an Auro 9.1 track on a 7.1 system? It's matrixed down to 7.1 channels, right? So the extra information from the height channels is mixed into the sides?)