I just completed the coding. I'll PM you a link to MMH 4.0.8 with these changes.
New Feature:
Remix Channel Layout Tool: Added new option to 'Move Quad rear channels to rear of 7.1 file'
Changes:
Remix Channel Layout Tool: User Defined Remix - increased max number of Channels to 8 (to support 7.1)
Could you please kindly test and provide feedback? If all looks good I'll publish the update.
No rush, when you get a chance to test.
Outstanding information @AYanguas , thank you !It is a "known feature' + 'known bug' of the DTS decoder, at least in Denon.
1) DTS decoder 'copies' the Surround channels to the Surround back channels in an attempt to image the sound between each pair sides of surrounds to emulate the supposed position angle that a 5.1 would have with surrounds more at the rear, instead of surround sides location at 90º that is more usual in a 7.1 config. It also compensates for the two speaker sound level to have same level.
If you careful listen near the speakers, check that they sound the same and not different content as when 'upmixing'. THIS is the 'feature'
2) The display shows the Height speakers active, but really no sound goes to them. THIS is the 'bug' but only at the display pannel. You could check if height speakers are really silent.
3) What is new for me, because I never notice with DTS 4.0, is the display Center Speaker active. Perhaps is also a 'display bug' and the Center channel is silent.
So, in summary, it is a good implementation of DTS 5.1 playing in a 7.1 system to sound as if you had a 5.1 speakers system. Only display 'bug' keep lighting the rest of speakers, but they are silent (pending check the Center Channel).
When you select a PCM track in a Bluray instead of the DTS track this does not happen as it is not the DTS decoder working. You should have then available the Sound Option of Multichannel to get only the input channels from the signal (plus the SUB for bass management).
Reviving this 3 year old post - I have had success with 8 channel .wav files instead of FLACs for my Oppo 203. However, the 2 channels aren't sent to the front height, they mix in with the rear surrounds.There's quite a few reports the Oppos won't play 7.1 from FLAC from a USB.
You can use AudioMuxer to convert the 7.1 FLACs to MKV. The 7.1 MKV will play from a USB on the Oppo.
I actually have two different speaker manager setups. 7.1.4 vs everything else. Precisely because of the side vs rear faux pas.How do you play Quad mixes that usually have too much discrete content in the two rear channels, if you have a 7.1.4 home cinema rig?
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