On February 25, 2008 at 22:19, Anthony said...
If a movie uses PiP, fancy sound
in menus..... you have two concurrent audio streams that
need mixing. So what do you do as a manufacturer? do you
output the DTHD, DTS-HD MA and say screw the extra sounds?
do you switch what goes out (original if one, decode-mix
and send out PCM or decode-mix and re-encode if two or
more)? do you just decode everything internally and keep
the path the same all the time (so now decoding in the
receiver and 1.3 with lossless support is useless).
Why not just do what the current 1.3a players (non PS3) do..? It makes sense to me that if whatever you're playing has multiple streams at a given time they're meant to be heard at the same time...yes/no? If that's the case, then simply mix them together and be done with it. Or is that just too simple?
I'm not an audio engineer so forgive me if I'm missing something that makes this more difficult then I realize.
