{"id":121,"date":"2010-03-14T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T23:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=121"},"modified":"2010-03-14T00:13:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T23:13:43","slug":"just-say-no-to-dts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Just Say No to DTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;re doing a Bluray rip, you open the m2ts, and you see over 9000 audio tracks sitting there. You probably go &#8220;&#8230;&#8221; and then you&#8230; No. Stop. Did you just pick something with DTS in the name? Danger, Will Robinson! Stop right there!<\/p>\n<p><strong>DTS FLASHFACTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a lossy codec<\/li>\n<li>It uses constant bitrate at 1509.75 kbit\/s (at least on blurays)<\/li>\n<li>It is so hilariously inefficient that FLAC (a lossless codec) usually manages to compress better than it, even with 6 channels of movie audio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DTS isn&#8217;t just a hilariously inefficient codec, it&#8217;s also criminally incompetent of you to use it when a Dolby TrueHD track is available. If you extract the TrueHD track and convert it to FLAC, you will not only get a lossless track instead of a lossy one, it&#8217;s also quite likely that you&#8217;ll save space!<\/p>\n<p><strong>BUT BUT BUT MY AUDIO RECEIVER CAN&#8217;T DECODE FLAC!!?!<\/strong><br \/>\nShut up about your goddamn receiver. If you still believe the bullshit about the decoder (bit-exact decoding, yo) and\/or DAC being better than the ones in your computer and you also think you&#8217;re able to hear the difference, you&#8217;re one of those insane audiophile spergers and I can&#8217;t really help you. Still, if your receiver isn&#8217;t some ancient piece of shit from the 90&#8217;s it will have a HDMI input, and then you can pass as many LPCM channels as you want to it with that.<\/p>\n<p>Also, don&#8217;t even get started about DTS-HD, there&#8217;s nothing that plays that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR:<\/strong> just stop using DTS, you goddamned mongoloids<\/p>\n<p>edit: don&#8217;t get started on zOMG DTS ENGINEERS either, faggots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;re doing a Bluray rip, you open the m2ts, and you see over 9000 audio tracks sitting there. You probably go &#8220;&#8230;&#8221; and then you&#8230; No. Stop. Did you just pick something with DTS in the name? Danger, Will Robinson! Stop right there! DTS FLASHFACTS: It is a lossy codec It uses constant bitrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encoding","category-fagsubbing","category-morons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}