On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:20:34AM -0800, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > On 2 March 2006 at 15:18, "Maluvia" <terakuma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I don't understand if any of today's DVD players, consumer > > grade or higher, will actually play back [the DVD-Audio] format > > at it's original resolution given the various copy-protection > > schemes in place - particularly for the high-res PCM - and > > whether these files can be output analog or digital or both. > > Everything I've been reading about it seems to be pretty out of > > date, and has only served to confuse me further. > > I have one DVD-Audio disc. It only plays in audiophile DVD players > that specificly advertise that they play DVD-Audio. It isn't > recognized by computer DVD drives, nor by consumer DVD players. Yep, DVD-video and DVD-audio are two different beasts. The DVD-A format by itself doesn't look bad, and it supports uncoded multi-channel sound at high quality. Both the DRM and the MLP coding are optional, so in theory you could create DVD-A disks using only open source software. The matter was discussed some time ago on the surround sound list, as the DVD-A format is the only 'mainstream' one allowing musicians and composers to create their own multichannel recordings. But real full-spec DVD-A players are rare, and the future of the format isn't very clear. -- FA
