In Reply to: Not all DVD-A's have a high resolution stereo track (n.t.) posted by Spiritualized on May 24, 2005 at 11:49:06:
I can't help it if people release DVD-A's in defiance of the specs :PIn multi-channel recordings, the DVD-Audio PCM specification allows each track to be recorded with a number of different factors. These include:
* The sampling rates and sample size can be set individually for each track. For example, you could use 24/96 for the front channels and 16/48 for the rear.
* A track for a front center channel may be present or a virtual center channel can be reproduced from the two front speakers.
* Downmixing of multi-channel tracks into a 2-channel mix if a separate 2-channel set of tracks is not present. If a set of 2-channel tracks are available they will be automatically used instead of the multi-channel downmix. The downmixing technology is referred to as "System Managed Audio Resource Technique" or SMART.
* Whether Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) lossless compression is used or uncompressed PCM.
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- Re: Not all DVD-A's have a high resolution stereo track (n.t.) - FeisalK 04:52:49 05/25/05 (0)