My basement TV is connected to a surround sound receiver, and when I watch DVD/BluRay titles, I get surround sound as you would expect. I have a couple of music DVD’s (Beatles Love and Yellow Submarine) that have surround sound audio mixes. I would like to extract the audio from these for playback through my Sonos ZP-90, which is connected to the receiver via a digital cable.
Post #7 in http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=469 asserts that Sonos boxes will pass through the contents of an appropriately-sampled 5.1 Flac or DD-Wav file to the receiver. I have verified that the Sonos barfs on the first sample 5.1 file at http://www.2l.no/hires/ with a complaint about the sample rate. So it seems that I will, at a minimum, have to do some transcoding down to 44.1kHz to make the Sonos happy.
Has anyone here already done this who can tell me what tools I need to use and what to do to make it work? There is a writeup on using VLC for audio extraction at https://wiki.videolan.org/Extract_audio/, but all I have gotten by following those directions on my old Windows laptop is some 0 byte output files.
I mostly use a MacBook Pro these days. I own “Toast Titanium” for Mac, but would be willing to use Windows to do the job if that’s the path of least resistance. (The Toast documentation says that it doesn’t work on copy-protected DVD’s.)
Post #7 in http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=469 asserts that Sonos boxes will pass through the contents of an appropriately-sampled 5.1 Flac or DD-Wav file to the receiver. I have verified that the Sonos barfs on the first sample 5.1 file at http://www.2l.no/hires/ with a complaint about the sample rate. So it seems that I will, at a minimum, have to do some transcoding down to 44.1kHz to make the Sonos happy.
Has anyone here already done this who can tell me what tools I need to use and what to do to make it work? There is a writeup on using VLC for audio extraction at https://wiki.videolan.org/Extract_audio/, but all I have gotten by following those directions on my old Windows laptop is some 0 byte output files.
I mostly use a MacBook Pro these days. I own “Toast Titanium” for Mac, but would be willing to use Windows to do the job if that’s the path of least resistance. (The Toast documentation says that it doesn’t work on copy-protected DVD’s.)