Bela Fleck: The Bluegrass Sessions- Help needed?

[shycohen]

Hi,
Just purchased the above dvd-a. It is a warner production. It says at the back that the disc plays 3 ways.
The problem is that I can't seem to find the stereo playlist. The only thing I am able to play is the surround playlist which is no good since I have only one pair of analog cables connected yet.
Didn't have this problem with my other warner titles (The Doors, Rumors, Pat Metheny, Eric clapton&B.B King).

Is it possible that the disc is faulty?

Thanks for your help.
Shyke.

 

[John Kotches]

I may be mistaken, but I believe this was one of the 1st round of releases from WB, where fold-down to stereo from the 5.1 mix was implemented using MLPs fold-down capability.

It was the 2nd round of titles from WB which started including dedicated stereo mixes.

Depending on player, different methods are used for fold-down to stereo.

Regards,

 

[Cai Campbell]

This disc does not have a stereo mix. My Toshiba SD-9200 does not "fold-down" this title and I get 2/3 of the surround mix in stereo mode.

 

[shycohen]

Thanks you guys. I thought the disc was defected.
What does fold down to stereo mean?

Best regards,
Shyke.

 

[John Kotches]

One of the capabilities of MLP is to include metadata that allows for an "intelligent" fold down of multi-channel info to stereo mixes.

This means one datastream could carry both mixes, without storing discrete stereo and multi-channel mixes.

Regards,

 

[Cai Campbell]

Hey John, that actually makes a lot of sense and would explain why some of my discs "fold-down" and others do not. At first I thought it was a function of the player, but then I could not explain the discrepancy among titles. Your assertion that MLP can contain metadata for fold-down purposes would explain this. I would then presume that the Bela Fleck MLP track does not contain this metadata.

But this does raise another question. Are there players that do "hardware level" fold-down in lieu of an MLP initiated fold-down? Inquiring minds want to know...

 

[John Kotches]

Cai,

To the best of my knowledge, no.

Further, most of the titles have discrete stereo mixes these days -- all of the WB output for example.

Much of the Silverline catalog is 5.1 only (a mistake IMO).



Regards,