Neil Palfreyman
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
Having a universal player that will happily play multi-channel flac files I've just started ripping my collection of music DVDs to FLAC. I'm using DVD Audio Extractor which seems to work pretty well.
One of the considerations is what bit depth and sampling rate to use?
With a DVD-A stream it seems sensible to use the same bit depth and sampling rate as the original which for the most part will be 24 bit 48k.
But (and here's my question) - what bit depth and sampling rate should I use for "standard" DTS encoded streams when no DVD-A is available?
I know I could just use 24bit 48k but is this overkill, given that conversion back to hi-res can do nothing to recover the information lost when the track was encoded in the first place? My main consideration is sound quality but I dont want to waste disc space if there's no benefit.
One of the considerations is what bit depth and sampling rate to use?
With a DVD-A stream it seems sensible to use the same bit depth and sampling rate as the original which for the most part will be 24 bit 48k.
But (and here's my question) - what bit depth and sampling rate should I use for "standard" DTS encoded streams when no DVD-A is available?
I know I could just use 24bit 48k but is this overkill, given that conversion back to hi-res can do nothing to recover the information lost when the track was encoded in the first place? My main consideration is sound quality but I dont want to waste disc space if there's no benefit.