fb2k outputs 2 channel static instead of 5.1 audio when I play a 5.1 wav file. Actually, I tried Windows Media Player 10, winamp, and fb2k and they all output the same thing. I expected some problem with the media players that didn't support multichannel audio, but I expected foobar to play it.

The only media player that plays the file is VLC.

I searched for information on the issue, but I found none

I think maybe I get static because fb2k doesn't support dts?

For some reason it's not working in VLC anymore now, either(7.2 or 8.2)....just silence. Media Player Classic also has static and I also have ffdshow, which I thought might filter dts.

So, I don't know how to play this file. I thought it would be easy. I think those stupid software patents have assured that it's much more difficult.

Does anyone now how to convert a 5.1 dts wav to a 6 channel flac?

I should probably also mention that I have a soundblaster live platinum with creative analog speakers. It has no digital outputs or inputs, but the speakers do support dolby digital through conversion(or something like that). I'm not too sure about DTS, but it was playing in VLC a few minutes ago.

have you tried using the convert 5.1 to stereo DSP?

to play DTS
Foo_DTS

is there any point using FLAC if DTS is a lossy format ?

Just remember to change .wav to .dts for this to work.

Hey thanks. Works great. I don't know why vlc and media player classic wouldn't play it though. I thought that ffdshow should have been able to filter it so it would play in anything though. maybe I just needed to rename the extension to .dts. I will check that later.

I didn't know dts was a lossy format. I mean, the files I have are all .wavs so I figured they were lossless. So, I just assumed that flac would have better compression.

The biggest reason to convert to flac was that, as far as I know, flac is the only free codec that can do true multichannel audio(there are probably others, I know) and there are a lot of players that can do flac, but not a lot of players that can do DTS. Also, most of the ones that can do DTS use "libdca"(or libdts as it used to be called) which could get erradicated in as little as a couple weeks if the stupid software patent laws pass in the EU. It's already been taken out of VLC as a precautionary measure.

Eventually $60+ software dvd players may be the only choice for playing DTS and that's just sickening.

Well, the outputs weren't right,but I switched to directsound v2.0 and it works right after that.