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Only Amarok 1.4.9.1 can play a DTS wav file and I cannot convert it to OGG or FLAC.

Asked by Uqbar

Only Amarok 1.4.9.1 can play a DTS wav file and I cannot convert it to OGG or FLAC.
I cannot burn it to a CD as my player doesn't support DTS.
Is there a way to work this issue around?

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Best Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder) said : 		#1

I'd tell you to use ffmpeg, but it apparently can't understand DTS WAV files. (Bug? Feature? Who knows?) You'll have to convert it into a plain PCM WAV file first, and then convert that into your format of choice. The following method worked for me with DTS WAV files from http://www.diatonis.com/downloads_dts_ac3.html.

Make sure you have mplayer installed, and I believe you'll need the libdca0 package installed if you don't already have it. Now, turn the DTS WAV files into a plain PCM WAV file. (This may take quite a bit of disk space.)

$ mplayer -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:fast:file=temp.wav DTS_INPUT.wav

You can now encode it as FLAC or OGG or whatever using your favorite tools:

$ oggenc temp.wav OUTPUT.ogg
$ ffmpeg -i temp.wav OUTPUT.flac

or whatever codec you prefer.

Please let me know if this works, and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.

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Uqbar (uqbar) said : 		#2

It worked, simply and effectively!
I didn't try mplayer as it is not my favourite multimedia player. Not yet.
But I will suggest everyone to have a player with rich CLI options. Like mplayer.

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Uqbar (uqbar) said : 		#3

Thanks Adam Buchbinder, that solved my question.

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Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder) said : 		#4

For future reference, I've noticed that there's a way to force ffmpeg to parse its input as a DTS WAV, so you can convert to FLAC output in one step:

$ ffmpeg -f dts -i DTS_INPUT.wav OUTPUT.flac