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Play DTS-encoded music via AirTunes and iTunes
Authored by: magir on Feb 09, '05 11:05:47AM

Both the Powermacs and the Powerbook G4 17" have digital outputs as well, I guess, they already support AC3 (and possibly) DTS passthru for th DVD-Player and DTS might also work with iTunes - I'm not sure. Just don't forget to turn up the volume all the way, otherwise the bitstream cannot be interpreted correctly.

As for examples look here: http://www.sr.se/multikanal/english/e_index.stm

As for using Airtunes with Movies - VLC already has some latency correction included but even with automatic detection of the latecny it'll never be perfect and therefore I think Apple will never do this - perhaps when they also stream the video via "AirImages" or whatever so they'll be able to sync Audio and Video then we'll see it - but I guess that's a few months/years away.



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Play DTS-encoded music via AirTunes and iTunes
Authored by: Thom on Feb 09, '05 01:59:51PM

I'm not sure if this supports third party devices like M-Audio's Sonica Theater 7.1, because I haven't ordered one yet. However, I believe it does (I'm thinking of this for Mac Mini users) because their requirements say: "10.3 required for Dolby Digital and DTS pass-through using Apple DVD Player."

I don't know whether Apple will open up hardware MPEG decoding (on the video card) in new versions of the OS, or whether ElGato will build in some code to output AC3 / Dolby Digital 5.1 stuff to output devices like this. But I certainly hope so!



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Play DTS-encoded music via AirTunes and iTunes
Authored by: mikael on Feb 09, '05 04:24:42PM

What if M-Audios Sonica could connect to AirTunes station, that should be no problem to let there driver find Sonica from the Airtunes, if regular USB printers can be found, or Im thinking totally wrong here?!

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