Tritton AXPro 5.1 Headset with DTS

[RikuoAmero]

Okay guys

Okay here's the situation. I've noticed more and more blu-rays and high quality .mkv files tend to use DTS audio. My problem is that my headset, the Tritton AXPro 5.1, is strictly Dolby. Is there a way of converting the audio track of a file into Dolby or something that the headset can understand? I have a Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro sound card installed. I would prefer if this is something that can be done "on the fly". I have both VLC and Media Player Classic Home Cinema x64 installed.

[† L4ugh]

Well I can atleast say that this is suppose to be possible but I haven't actually found a "how to" yet. I also lack surround sound headphones to test any of it anyways. The one thing I can offer at this time is AC3Filter. It says that it will do what you want, and I seem to have been able to install it into mpc-hc's external filters. I have no idea if it is really doing anything though, because all I have is the cheap speakers built into my monitor. I think you will also have to configure it through its own gui rather then mpc-hc. It will most likely install itself in your Program Files folder

PopCorn MKV AudioConverter isn't really an alternative, but it will convert the DTS audio to AC3 audio for you so you won't have to worry about "on the fly" converting. This program caused a ton of pop up alerts while I used but the programs home site did say that it would do that. It did successfully convert one of my DTS audio encodes to AC3 audio. Only problem is you will have to do this for each file your having issue with.

I'll keep looking to see if I can come up with something better, but I'm not really sure how much help I'll really be on this one.

[RikuoAmero]

Well I can atleast say that this is suppose to be possible but I haven't actually found a "how to" yet. I also lack surround sound headphones to test any of it anyways. The one thing I can offer at this time is AC3Filter. It says that it will do what you want, and I seem to have been able to install it into mpc-hc's external filters. I have no idea if it is really doing anything though, because all I have is the cheap speakers built into my monitor. I think you will also have to configure it through its own gui rather then mpc-hc. It will most likely install itself in your Program Files folder

PopCorn MKV AudioConverter isn't really an alternative, but it will convert the DTS audio to AC3 audio for you so you won't have to worry about "on the fly" converting. This program caused a ton of pop up alerts while I used but the programs home site did say that it would do that. It did successfully convert one of my DTS audio encodes to AC3 audio. Only problem is you will have to do this for each file your having issue with.

I'll keep looking to see if I can come up with something better, but I'm not really sure how much help I'll really be on this one.

Thanks for the help, I'll look into this when I get home from work. I was just getting pissed off when I noticed some 1080p rips of Avatar on the piratebay were DTS only. I've got one of those downing at the moment, I'll give it a try later. Thanks again. If these don't work, I'll just break out my 7.1 analog speaker set, use the 3.5mm ports from the sound card...sigh...fingers crossed that I can do this on my headset.

New Edit: Thanks L4ugh, but my Creative sound card appears to have an option to force all sounds to be encoded with either Dolby or DTS. I've confirmed it on a fresh download of Kill Bill vol 2, it has only DTS audio, but in the creative control panel, I've selected Dolby encoding, and I can hear everything just fine. Guess I was worried over nothing.

[† L4ugh]

np, glad to hear you got everything working.