Finding Nemo - Page 5

Watched Nemo last week (2D) with a Marantz SR 7005 and an Oppo 83, and noticed no dropouts.

I presume you were watching/listening over hdmi?

Bitstream or lpcm?

Yes, HDMI and PCM.

So.... it sounds like if you listen with PCM it isn't a problem?!?

This is so frustrating...

It could be. The Brave thread seems to back up that idea.

I still got dropouts with LPCM - had to use old fashioned co-ax dd5.1 out

Yes it is. But this issue goes back a ways (about a year) for me. I've never done any exhaustive investigating but it's possible that this problem goes back as far as the Star Wars BD release. There was one moment of the Star Destroyer flyover that had a dropout but I was running bitstream at the time. It was one little glitch so I didn't worry much about it and never considered it being a bitstream/PCM issue. A few months later I noticed a few dropouts on other movies and eventually one day I noticed that my sound was completely off. First thinking it was just a volume issue or the BD wasn't automatically choosing the lossless format. Then I realized my receiver (Denon-PS3-HDMI) wasn't decoding. After playing around with it I stumbled on the fact that PCM worked (after switching back to Bitstream to verify). Of course, I don't have the TrueHD/DTS-MA icons on my screen, which annoys me and I'm not quite convinced it doesn't sound a touch better. At any rate, what's odd to me is that this all seemed to be a delayed issue. There are a handful of movies that played fine up until a certain point and all of a sudden they won't play properly over bitstream. I've made no updates to my receiver or ps3 and still this issue popped up. Something is fishy about it all if you ask me.

update your PS3 and get back to us.....there are quite a bit of decoding options/settings in the PS3. I sold my fat years ago to get the slim that could bitstream to my Integra DHC-40.1 preamp. I've had ZERO issues with Brave and Finding Nemo. The only frustrating thing is on my video feed...and it is frustrating; my 35 ft HDMI cable running thru the attic is making a slight 'pause' at random times on all, if not most 2.35:1 films. The most i've seen this is with the newest Star Trek. OK, end of rant, and back OT for finding nemo

Apart from seeing the TrueHD or DTS-HD MA logos appear on an AVR, is there really any advantage bitstreaming instead of decoding in the player?

Remember that player decoding generally is synchronous between audio and video, unlike a PC where there are asynchronous clocks for the two streams.

If you want to process the signal with Dolby ProLogic IIx, IIz or similar DSPs, many receivers will not do that with a multi-channel PCM input.

Disney just needs to correct the issue in all the discs they put out... then we don't have to play the "wonder" game.

Not just Disney!

Is this for matrixed soundtracks?

Since TrueHD and DTS-HD are primarily discrete soundtracks, the solution would be for the studios not to use matrixing but to follow the discrete model.

I understand that matrixed 6.1 soundtracks can cause a lot of issues.

Whilst I originally thought that some recent releases contained DD+ companion embedded soundtracks to TrueHD, I was incorrect and they are DD EX 6.1 matrixed instead, but maybe that is enough to cause dropout issues with some equipment.

Out of interest, does anyone know if bitstreaming sends the whole THD+DD-EX stream to an AVR, or is only the THD component sent?

I don't know this with 100% certainty, but they are probably both sent. The packets of the embedded lossy DD have the same stream identifier as the TrueHD packets and for bitstreaming that's likely all that is checked when determining what to send over the wire.

Watched this again tonight - same setup Oppo BDP-93 & Yamaha RX-A2010 only this time disabled HDMI 1 output from the player (QDEO Chip) and used HDMI 2 (Mediatek Chip)
and lo and behold no dropouts via bitstream!

Had also had dropouts during first few seconds of 'Prometheus' (3D version) and using the above connection setup this was also ok.

Have yet to try 'Brave' which another I had also had dropouts with.