toddvj Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 I have several DTS CDs, and am able to play them in my set-top DVD player. However, I recently got the ProMedia 5.1 Ultras (I love 'em, by the way) and wanted to play a DTS CD while I was online. I have the Creative Media Player, Power DVD, and Windows Media Player. None of these will play the CD. I also have the Creative Media DVD-Audio player, and it works great for DVD-A discs, but will also not play the dts disc. When I use the Windows or Creative Media Player, I just get static. I switched my sound card's settings to digital only output, but that didn't help. When I tried Power DVD, it said "This is not a DVD," which it isn't, it is technically a CD, just with dts audio. Has anyone tried this, and had any sucess, or is it impossible? Before anyone asks, I can play DVDs with dts, no problem. I am also posting this question on the ProMedia forum, because I think some of the guys in there might be a little more computer savvy, so pardon me for the duplicate post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mineral Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 i've only got 1 dts audio cd, and that's portishead - live in NY. i too had trouble finding a player that would handle the audio format. the only one that worked for me was the dvd-audio player that was bundled with my audigy 2 zs. i will take a look to see what kind of codec you need to get that playing in regular apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddvj Posted March 18, 2004 Author Share Posted March 18, 2004 I've got the DVD-Audio Player that came bundled with my Audigy 2 ZS. It doesn't even recognize that there is a disc in the drive. My DVD-A discs work fine. How'd you make it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mineral Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 hrm...i can't say it was more than pop in and play. this be some kinda special dts...have no clue why it wouldn't work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Posted March 22, 2004 Share Posted March 22, 2004 I got Santana's Abraxas dts CD to work fine with my Creative Mediasource player that came with my Audigy 2ZS Platinum card. That is, once I put it in my Plextor 708-A DVD+/-R/ drive. It's weird, some discs play in that drive that won't in the standard DVD-ROM drive that came with my Dell. They usually use Samsung brand DVD-ROMs. At least with both my last dell and this one. The Plextor drive is just an all around better piece of work IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddvj Posted March 23, 2004 Author Share Posted March 23, 2004 I don't know what I'm doing wrong then. I've tried both my drives and neither one works. I'm sure I'm missing something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mineral Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 hmmm maybe it's just a really anal dvd-rom...maybe a firmware update? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddvj Posted March 26, 2004 Author Share Posted March 26, 2004 I really don't think it is the drive(s). The CDs play, just that they only play static. (This is the same thing you would get if you put it in a standard CD player.) When I use Creative MediaCenter, It recognizes the CD, and I can get CDDB data on it, just cant make it work. As I said DVD Movies play fine with DTS. I think it is the player itself. On my other post someone suggested using WinDVD platinum, which I downloaded, and it recognized the CD as being a DTS CD, but said I did not have the proper (codec or whatever) and I would need to upgrade to Platinum. I just don't want to pay $70 for a DVD player when I already have a full featured (except for dts CDs) player. I might try downloading from a slightly less than legal source to see if it works, but otherwise, I'm not really THAT worried about it, I can play the CDs on my HT system and they sound great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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