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General - (fb2k) / Re: FFmpeg Decoder Wrapper (foo_input_ffmpeg) passthrough output
Last post by gorman -Not disputing your wishes... my request is more conservative, recognizing that such use would not be widespread. Don't mistake this for me not appreciating what you wish, I'm simply trying to be realistic in my request.I would very much like to see the passthrough option in Foobar for all Dolby and DTS signals (DTSHDMA, TrueHD, DTS96/24 old-lossy ones and all others).As far as Dolby Digital, DTS and DTS 96/24, you can get passthrough by NOT installing AC3 and DTS decoders in foobar2000 and using AudioMuxer and its "Convert AC3/DTS to SPDIF Wav/Flac" function. It encapsulate the AC3/DTS content in a WAV file you can then compress to FLAC, in order to properly tag it.
foobar2000 decodes the FLAC and leaves the result untouched, sending it bitperfect to your AVR. Obviously you need to use WASAPI output and leave fb2k volume at 100%.
Which is pretty much what I'd like to find a way to do with FFmpeg Decoder Wrapper for object based surround content. Because while DTS-HD MA and TrueHD can be decoded losslessly (so I think, at least) the object based surround extensions of Atmos and DTS-X are completely lost in the process, currently.
Thank you for the suggestion but to be honest I do not see a point in installing additional programs/plugins, "cheating the system", encapsulating something into something and so on just to get a pasthrough. What I need is foobar being able to just not "touch" my files, just play them - for example Bluray or DVDV or DVA files with different audio streams. I do not intend to rip them, demux them, convert them and so on just to get proper playback. I would like just to play them and get what they are without altering.
So the best solution is to implement passthroug with option to enable/disable it (so FB would decode the files or pass them through).