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Old 11th April 2007   #1
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Will a DVD-Audio disc play on the computer?
Is it posssible to play a DVD-Audio in all its glory on the computer? Any drivers or special software required? I do have a firewire audio interface that does up to 192khz/24-bit.
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Is it posssible to play a DVD-Audio in all its glory on the computer? Any drivers or special software required? I do have a firewire audio interface that does up to 192khz/24-bit.
You sure will be able to !
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Not unless you have a software player designed to do so.
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Not unless you have a software player designed to do so.
Windows Media Player won't do it?
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Windows Media Player won't do it?
mine does..?!?
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mine does..?!?
It is most likely playing the video layer which contains a Dolby Digital track. I haven't been able to find any evidence that it will play the contents of the audio folder.
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Try one and see.
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It is most likely playing the video layer which contains a Dolby Digital track. I haven't been able to find any evidence that it will play the contents of the audio folder.
An important distinction... a lot of people don't seem to realize that there can be multiple audio formats on DVDs, particularly vids... sometimes folks think they're hearing something at 24/96 when they're actually hearing a fairly degraded format.
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Ok guys, let's start over. The question is about DVD-Audio discs.
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