DVDPedia: Corrections and additions to formats under "S
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:00 pm
First off, I'd like to thank the Bruji folks for making a damn good program. I'm a switcher (well, mostly) coming from DVD Profiler on the PC side, and DVDPedia seems like pretty much what I needed from the Mac side. I've only been testing it out for one day, and I'm ready to plonk down the registration fee.
Okay, effusive praise aside, I do have one big nitpick. Basically, the audio formats that are listed under "Sound" are both incorrect and incomplete. As far as I can tell, the list currently only includes the following:
Okay, effusive praise aside, I do have one big nitpick. Basically, the audio formats that are listed under "Sound" are both incorrect and incomplete. As far as I can tell, the list currently only includes the following:
- Dolby Digital
- AC-3
- DTS
- THX
- Dolby Digital
- Dolby Digital EX (allows for matrixed 6.1 sound, with "phantom" rear channel)
- DTS
- DTS-ES Matrixed (same functionality as DD EX)
- DTS-ES Discrete (allows for actual rear channel instead of "phantom")
- MPEG Audio (a simple MPEG Layer 2 track)
- PCM (uncompressed 2-channel sound)
- Dolby Digital (with higher bitrates for Blu-ray)
- Dolby Digital EX
- Dolby Digital Plus (allows higher bitrates for HD DVD)
- Dolby TrueHD (lossless audio compression with support up to 7.1 channels)
- DTS
- DTS-ES Matrixed
- DTS-ES Discrete
- DTS-HD (allows higher bitrates for Blu-ray and HD DVD and supports up to 7.1 channels)
- DTS-HD Master Audio (lossless audio compression with support up to 7.1 channels)
- MPEG Audio
- PCM (lossless uncompressed audio with support for hi-def formats up to 7.1 channels)