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Dolby 5.1 playable? Iriver H120

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ad2003:
Hi!

First I have to say, that I love Rockbox! It really enhanced the Iriver120 with many features - and so the "old" player is still up-to-date.

My question is: Can I play any dolby digital (5.1) files from the player through the optical out?

Why do I post this into the recording Forum - well, I want to record several sounds and finnaly I want to put them together in samplitude, or something....

I have a 5.1 DD Surround Decoder with optical in. Thank you!

AD

ad2003:
Has noone an idea? Or is this too stupid? I can't find anything in the search....

thx

ad

Chronon:
I honestly don't know what will happen.  It may do what you want, or it may downmix it to stereo.  The SoundCodecs page on the wiki mentions that the AC3 codec can downmix 5.1 streams to stereo so it seems like this may be what happens if my assumptions are correct.  I am guessing that the file gets processed by the codec and delivered to the optical out just before being sent to the internal DAC.  Isn't this something you can test easily?

ad2003:
Hi Thanks for your post! Yeah - maybe I can test it - but I don't know which codec to use with! I think rockbox can't play vob files - or mpg2? Maybe someone can tell me, which codec I should use? Does wma support 5.1?

Thank you!

AD

saratoga:

--- Quote from: ad2003 on April 21, 2009, 08:50:25 AM ---Hi Thanks for your post! Yeah - maybe I can test it - but I don't know which codec to use with! I think rockbox can't play vob files - or mpg2?

--- End quote ---

You asked about dolby files before, not VOB or WMA.  By dolby did you actually mean "5.1 audio"?

If so, I think the answer is no.  In theory it might be possible to feed raw dolby files to the digital out (i.e. disable rockbox decoding and just do pass through), but I doubt anyone has written a plugin for that.  Though I've never looked for one either.

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