Module: Surround Encoding
Well, there are cheap ways to get at least Doly Digital encoded in realtime. I have a Nforce2 motherboard with a Soundstorm DSP that encodes DD Live in realtime. Also there are some soundcards - Turtle Beach, Blue Gears, Terratec - on the market that also encodes DD Live. I think Creative has an DTS realtime encoder - pretty neat. Much better soundquality than DD Live.
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archaic_electronics
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im not buying these explanations at all...
1st off, if licensing fees were "so" outrageous, then DVD players wouldnt be 100 bucks
2nd, these are "pro-audio" cards, and absolutely have enough horsepower to encode and decode surround 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 etc...and, again, if my consumer reciever can up-convert it, so can a pulsar
3rd, regardless of the compression needed to put 6 discrete channels over the SPDIF, if your mixing surround, you do want to hear what other people may hear...i mean, with all this horsepower, you have to goto your buddys house? and use his consumer dvd player? cause, you paid how much for your soundcard?
4th, creamwares coding has always been kinda crappy, im guessing they simply dont know howto code it correctly...(let the flame war begin)
so, regardless of the excuses...(ahem, creamware) step up and send 5.1 over the damn SPDIF allready?
jeremy
1st off, if licensing fees were "so" outrageous, then DVD players wouldnt be 100 bucks
2nd, these are "pro-audio" cards, and absolutely have enough horsepower to encode and decode surround 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 etc...and, again, if my consumer reciever can up-convert it, so can a pulsar
3rd, regardless of the compression needed to put 6 discrete channels over the SPDIF, if your mixing surround, you do want to hear what other people may hear...i mean, with all this horsepower, you have to goto your buddys house? and use his consumer dvd player? cause, you paid how much for your soundcard?
4th, creamwares coding has always been kinda crappy, im guessing they simply dont know howto code it correctly...(let the flame war begin)
so, regardless of the excuses...(ahem, creamware) step up and send 5.1 over the damn SPDIF allready?
jeremy
ENCODE is the expensive license. DECODE license is the cheap one, or that's how it was told to me.
the sound storm thing is kinda interesting. that a soundstorm dsp chip could do dolby encoding, shows that a sharc probably can as well. i'm doubting that much could be done with that feature on your realtek builtin sound card on the nforce2 motherboard, however. i don't think the feature is truly integrated in a useable way, or you have a real cheap ac3 encoding box. many studios are likely to just dump their expensive dolby gear to just run thru a cheap motherboard.
most likely, even if such a feature were truly useable, it'd be poor quality for professional work.
i could easily be wrong, though....
the sound storm thing is kinda interesting. that a soundstorm dsp chip could do dolby encoding, shows that a sharc probably can as well. i'm doubting that much could be done with that feature on your realtek builtin sound card on the nforce2 motherboard, however. i don't think the feature is truly integrated in a useable way, or you have a real cheap ac3 encoding box. many studios are likely to just dump their expensive dolby gear to just run thru a cheap motherboard.
most likely, even if such a feature were truly useable, it'd be poor quality for professional work.i could easily be wrong, though....
much appreciated...On 2006-03-17 01:08, archaic_electronics wrote:
...creamwares coding has always been kinda crappy, im guessing they simply dont know howto code it correctly...(let the flame war begin)...
noone codes that sh*t by hand today - you buy preprogrammed chips (there are even Sharcs - yes, like those in the ASBs, with up to 4MB of audio codecs on chip)
simplyfied the big boys in chipset making hire a couple of wizzards that do the dirty (part of the) job for a little more than a fistful of $$$, preferably in assembly - then it doesn't even need much horsepower
as GaryB wrote - it's all about encoding
but please leave anything with less quality than DTS where it is
cheers, Tom