Wondering if I am able to pass along Dolby True-HD and DTS-HD audio to my Denon receiver and have it decoded there if I connect the WD device to it using an HDMI cable? I play all my media files from a USB device. Either HDD or thumb drive.
Thanks.
Dolby, yes.
DTS-HD, no. Only the 5.1 core is passed through.
The player can play almost anything except DTS-HD files. You can convert your DTS-HD file(s) to a loseless flac file though and be able to play it back with no loss in quality.
desertwedge wrote:
The player can play almost anything except DTS-HD files. You can convert your DTS-HD file(s) to a loseless flac file though and be able to play it back with no loss in quality.
Huh? You’re saying the WD can play back 8-channel FLAC? Not heard that before.
I’ve converted a couple of surround sound demo files (each channel is played individually) to flac and pcm (96khz/24bit) and the wdtv does play them in mkv container. I only have a 5.1 setup but the audio files are 7.1. Will try to provide a copy of the file for testing.
Have to retract what I said earlier about the demo files I have being 7.1 flac. I thought they were encoded as 7.1 but were actually downmixed to 5.1 according to the mediainfo readout. Still, being able to play multi-channel flac or pcm in a mkv container should provide more options to keep as high quality audio as possible to the original.
