Blasphemy!
You will be able to tell the difference when you try 7.1 content. Anyway, if you can't tell the difference, then what's the difference?
Presumably, to be a HDDVD/BD player it will have MPEG2, H264 and VC1 support, but it will avoid DirectShow so my guess is no you won't be able to use them in external software without specific support for them. A more useful question might be - will it decode DTS-HD Master Audio because its difficult? Or will it simply decode the DTS core and say it does, relying on the fact that people won't be able to tell the difference?
Let's not forget a major one : EXTERNAL SUBTITLES :agree:
what OS's do you plan to support for SlyPlayer?
I thought of another thing that might be nice when I was laying in bed last night... Sorry if this was mentioned before since I only yesterday saw this thread and it seems there was a lot of previous discussion...
- Audio selection preference ranking - So since it seems like DVD's and BD's always have like multiple audio tracks in different formats (DTS-HD, THX, TrueHD, ACS, etc...) it might be cool to have all the available decodable codecs listed with ranking boxes next to them and the user can rank them from 1 to 10, for example if there are 10 codecs supported. Then, the player will always analyze the audio on the disk of file being played and used the highest ranked format available. So, the user can really tell the program "Hey...if TrueHD is available use that. If not and DTS-HD is, use that. If not, use..."
If implemented this should be automatic - not user definable. Why go to the trouble of creating a ranking configuration screen when there is really only one ranking system - from 'most lossless' to 'most lossy'.
Because making that ranking is anything but obvious. The property of lossless-ness is difficult to measure objectively. When dealing with perceptual encodings, there is plenty of room for debate in which is 'better' at the same bit rates.
Even if you were to conclude that DTS Master was intrinsically better than Dolby TrueHD, down stream decoding and processing issues may make Dolby the better choice.
More than that, the quality, not to say the bugs, associated with real implementations of codecs make it impossible to create a 'fixed' ordering that would be 'correct' for more than a fraction of the users.
Is there really?If there is such a hierarchy of audio preferences, it needs to be modifiable by the user.
Let me chime in on this audio discussion. It's like an engineer seeing how complex they can make something for the sake of being "user friendly". :bang: It misses the point. The audio will be selectable by the user. Why should the program try to determine what audio is "best"?? That's the user's job. What you should be asking for is a better interface to cycle through the audio tracks to make it easier to pick the right one. This isn't rocket science....stop trying to turn it into that.
Also the discs themselves currently designate a default track.
My opinion is to respect that and then open it up for user selection.