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I'm very confused.

 

I have ripped a 5.1 DVD-A disc to m4a using DVA Audio extractor. I set it to rip 6 channels, and it seems to have worked. The m4a files' information says 6 channels when viewed in OS X Finder.

 

But when I connect the USB hard drive with the files to my Oppo 105 and play, my AVR only shows 2 channel input and I only get 2 channel playback.

 

Put the DVD-A disc in the Oppo 105 and it plays in 5.1

 

Any thoughts on what happened?

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Hi Arg!

Well, it might be that the mp4 5.1 is not supported for playback. I am not sure and could not find that so fast if that's the case here. But it might well be. In that case what I would try and for the sake of quality of course just rip the the original DVD-A in the native format and try if that is playable from the external USB. Maybe you have also more luck if you rip it as an 5.1 FLAC.

 

from the spec.:

 

  • Additional Disc & Media Formats - Additional disc and file formats, such as DVD, audio CD, HDCD, Kodak Picture CD, AVCHD, MP4, AVI, MKV and other audio/video/picture files on recorded discs or USB drives can be played back on the BDP-105. The BDP-105 fully supports high-resolution lossless WAV and FLAC music formats.7

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Well spotted! That has turned out to be the issue. The Oppo can see and play m4a files but not it seems in 5.1, only in stereo.

 

When I convert the m4a files to FLAC, they play in 5.1 through the Oppo.

 

Thanks very much!

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Actually, the Oppo is able to play 5.1 channel AAC-LC and HE-AAC .m4a contained audio files and pass the multi-channel audio stream via HDMI to a surround sound amplifier. Indeed, I've just tried it with my Onkyo TX-NR609 (which is set to 'Direct' input).

 

The 'Audio Format Setup' on my Oppo BDP-103EU is as follows: -

Secondary Audio - Off

HDMI Audio - Auto

Coaxial/Optical Output - Bitstream

SACD Output - DSD

HDCD Decoding - On

 

I use the same settings to play my multi-channel Flac and PCM.wav audio files...

 

 

Cheers

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Well that is interesting because playing my m4a files via HDMI from my Oppo 105 is seen by the AVR as 2 channel only, but FLACs of the same files are 5.1

 

I don't know if my m4a files are AAc-LC or HE-AAC or otherwise -- whey are whatever DVD Audio Extractor produces.

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Are you using the old mpc? Then try the latest MPCHC (not beta).

 

If you are already using mpchc then try disable the built in m4a/aac decoder, under view->options->internal filters->transform filters and unselect AAC. And see how it works.

Arg and myself are not using a computer to play multi-channel AAC audio files. We are using an Oppo BDP-10x 'hardware' player!

 

Arg. How have you got on?

 

Cheers

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Arg and myself are not using a computer to play multi-channel AAC audio files. We are using an Oppo BDP-10x 'hardware' player!

 

Arg. How have you got on?

 

Cheers

 

My Oppo 105 certainly plays your .m4a test files in MCH (although 'LFE' comes from left front). Both the AAC-LC and HE-AAC files.

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My Oppo 105 certainly plays your .m4a test files in MCH (although 'LFE' comes from left front). Both the AAC-LC and HE-AAC files.
That's the 'announcement' for the LFE tone ;)

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