Hi All!

Does anyone out there know wether a DVD Audio or SACD can be formatted to WMA Lossless/FLAC, and be played?

Best Regards, Lars

The audio on a  DVD is encoded a a bit rate of 48Khz whereas an mp3 or wma is usually encoded at 41Khz. Some players designed for audio only may not be able to decode the higher bit rate.

There is a free computer programme to change the bit rate to most formats.

Try  http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html where various file programmes for audio and video are located

Ron

Does BS 5 handle that?

And for example, on HD tracks, one can buy in 192 kHz... and it works... only studiomaster quality...

Doesn't tell anything about wether BS5 handles DVD-A

langleyav:

The audio on a  DVD is encoded a a bit rate of 48Khz whereas an mp3 or wma is usually encoded at 41Khz.

Most music is originated from CD; this is 16bit 44.1kHz, but music can be encoded up to 24bit 192kHz WMA (and FLAC). This is equal to the maximal capability of a 2 channel DVD Audio format. Note: WMA and FLAC can also be encoded in multichannel formats.

In contrast MP3 is a lossy format, so it always loses information from the original!

It is quite easy to extract the MLP format from a DVDA with "DVD Audio Extractor"; a Windows application.

SACD is another story. Until today there is no way to rip the DSD signal directly from a SACD to a hi-res WMA/FLAC format.