DTS surcode price drop and VEGAS

asheraa wrote on 10/28/2004, 11:23 PM

We all know DVDA will not code DTS, neither Vegas.

The Surcode DTS-DVD encoder price has droped fron arround 2K to $499, and the CD vertion for only $99!!!!!!!
( Surcode works very simple, you input 6 wav files and spits out ONE .wav file with DTS encoding on it). So it is even possible now to have 5.1 DTS in a standard CD !
( provided you play the CD via digital to a DTS decoder receiver, etc )

now, my question is:

1.- Can DVDA import the DTS encoded .wav file, and leave it untouced, without re-compressing? by fooling it to be a PCM? will DVDA mess arround with a PCM wav and re-process an uncompressed file? Will DVDA produce a DTS video this way?

2.- If above does not work, beacuse the DVDA "possible" forced-recompression.
Maybe using VEGAS 5 to import the coded .wav file, merge and encode with the video portion, spitting out a mp2 video, with DTS. AND HOPEFULLY allowing DVDA to accept Vegas output mp2 file, without re-compression, and have a DTS video !!!!

Thanks in Advance !

Ant.
www.ashera.com

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 10/29/2004, 7:18 AM

DVDA 2 can accept compliant mpeg elementary streams, no prob. DVDA 2 (or 1) cannot accept DTS files. You do of course have the AC3 encoder if you have DVDA, but perhaps you prefer DTS over AC3. If so, why?

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/29/2004, 7:27 AM

I'll offer that DTS offers a more robust sound, but at the expense of much higher bitrates. Compatibility is no longer a concern, but they certainly hold their technology dear compared to AC3.

asheraa wrote on 10/29/2004, 3:41 PM

DTS is by far superior to AC3. Period.

My question is of a technnical nature, say if Vegas or DVDA reads a .wav ( DTS encoded ), and a user tells these applications to consider it as PCM, and then create the video stream, but with the option of PCM for audio, I suppose, that if there is no "re-scrablin'" of the PCM, the DTS encoding will be left ontouched.

IS this possible?

donp wrote on 10/29/2004, 5:00 PM

Adobe Encore will handle just fine if you designate the DTS wave file not to be transcoded.

asheraa wrote on 10/31/2004, 8:57 PM

Thanks, but Adobe Encore an Sonic will not support Win 2000 ! Only XP.
Would you beleive it?

Ant.