DTS Audio files

Fazer6

Can anyone out there on the interweb tell me how I can sucessfully burn an audio cd that has file extensions '.dts' ?
I've tried with Nero to burn a data disk, an audio disk and an audio/data disk.
I've renamed the file extensions to 'wav' too.
No success with anything I've tried so far.
Any advice would be greatfully received.

Thanks in advance.

Fazer6.

Ghost Train

you'll need to convert it to a more standard stereo audio file... like .wav or .mp3

you could try this program
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/BeSweet

Anti

dbpoweramp should be able to do this aswell.

Fazer6

Thanks for your replies.

In case I didn't make myself clear initially, I would like to burn files with a '.dts' extension to a cd, so I will have a cd with just DTS information on it, I don't want to change the format.
A friend of mine has a cd like that and the sound is fantastic, you play the cd in a dvd player and use an amp with DTS decoding instead of Dolby Digital decoding.
However he was given the disk by another friend and doesn't know how it is done, so I could start a long chase on that trail but I thought that asking a question here would be easier.

Regards.

Fazer6.

zilog_jones

So you want it to be playable by a DVD player? Unless some DVD players can play DTS audio on their own somehow, the only way I could think of would be authoring some sort of DVD video, but without the video. I don't know this can be done - a video stream may have to exist for it to be playable, but saying that you can probably just have 1 frame of black video or something weird like that.

I'm sure people on www.videohelp.com or www.doom9.org would know more about doing this. Maybe even the HydrogenAudio forums.

Jonathan

Try Foobar2000.... it can play dts files using this plugin. From there you can burn audio cd's using NERO or convert to other formats which are more accessable.

_CreeD_

Afair .DTS files are just encoded WAV files. Change the extension to .WAV and burn to CD-Audio as normal, do a slow burn on good media as they are much more error sensitive. A DTS capable player should detect the encoding in the audio data and play it properly.
Been quite a while since I messed with them though.

zilog_jones

I don't think DTS works that way. "WAV" is just a container, not an audio format, i.e. for example you can have MP3 encoded audio in a WAV file. DTS does seem to usually exist in WAV files, but I'm sure if you burn that to an audio CD (with Nero or whatever) it's just getting converted back into standard Red Book audio (44.1kHz 16-bit PCM stereo). DTS is some sort of lossy compression codec, similar to Dolby Digital. I think you are getting it mixed up with matrix-encoded surround systems like Dolby Pro Logic, which can be put on a normal audio CD and decoded by a Pro Logic amp.

DTS soundtracks used in cinemas are traditionally on CD-ROMs, not standard Audio CDs.

Fazer6

I have a CD with DTS audio (only) on it and I can play it on my home cinema system. My DVD player and surround sound amp both support DTS.

I have some DTS encoded files on my hard drive and I would like to burn them onto a CD using Nero.

Thanks for all the replies, I'll have a go again tonight.

Fazer6.

zilog_jones

What do the files look like on the CD when you put it in your PC? Are they just .WAV files? Are they in certain folders or anything? And what are the files you have on your PC like?

bangersandmash

Get the original CD from your friend and make an image of it.

I'd imagine that a .bin/.cue image might be required because the cuesheet can be used for allsorts e.g. gapless CDs but an .iso image might also be fine.

Also is it SACD or DVD-Audio?

_CreeD_

zilog_jones wrote:

I don't think DTS works that way. "WAV" is just a container, not an audio format, i.e. for example you can have MP3 encoded audio in a WAV file. DTS does seem to usually exist in WAV files, but I'm sure if you burn that to an audio CD (with Nero or whatever) it's just getting converted back into standard Red Book audio (44.1kHz 16-bit PCM stereo). DTS is some sort of lossy compression codec, similar to Dolby Digital. I think you are getting it mixed up with matrix-encoded surround systems like Dolby Pro Logic, which can be put on a normal audio CD and decoded by a Pro Logic amp.

DTS soundtracks used in cinemas are traditionally on CD-ROMs, not standard Audio CDs.

Its a 24bit lossy compression codec, 5.1 like DD but better. You can get it on std. audio CDs and you're right in saying .WAV is just a container which is why .DTS can be burnt as a std. Audio CD from a DTS file treated as a WAV. Once the recording is bit perfect the player should detect the DTS encoding and play it correctly, example here : http://www.kellyindustries.com/sounds.html . If the player does not detect and switch to DTS mode it'll just play static. Essentially it won't treat it as Stereo Audio even though that is the way it has been burnt, the player/decoder does the work.
Cinema DTS tracks are on CDRom as they (outside of pure digital movies) use an optical tracker on the film itself to keep the soundtrack in time with the video. So a bit more sync. ability is needed.

zilog_jones

That makes more sense, but still sounds funky. I take it Nero and whatever won't be able to burn these DTS CDs?

Fazer6

I got swamped by domestic duties last night, it'll be tomorrow night before I get a chance again. I'll keep you all posted on the results.

Fazer6.

Fazer6

Success!

I renamed the ‘.DTS’ extension to ‘.WAV’ and the files burned fine using Nero.
I tried the renaming process last week but it didn't work then but I can't remember if I tried buring the files as 'audio'.

Fazer6.