5.1 48Khz FLAC can not be played on PS3 with UMS
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:11 am
Hello.
Good day to you all.
I have found that I'm unable to play 5.1 - 48 Khz FLAC with UMS (PMS doesn't play them either) in all versions that I have checked.
In fact, I do not think that this issue is caused by UMS, most probably is the lack of audio formats supported by PS3 itself.
Let me give you a brief background about this.
I have been using Subjunk PMS build for a long time before moving to UMS since I'm quite satisfied with his
good job with this software, never had a single problem.
A few weeks ago I put my hands over a certain soundtrack of certain PS3 game.
The soundtrack has been extracted with a certain method from the game itself, so
it's 5.1 instead of the usual stereo crap and it's 48 Khz, not 96 Khz as many flac files that I could find around.
As I have a few 48 Khz stereo FLAC from other amazon purchases, I tried to play them with the same UMS version and
they worked sucesfully, but the 5.1 flac files fail directly with an "incompatible media" error on PS3.
Please, someone could confirm my suspicions?.
I think that PS3 can not play 5.1 audio files, only video (and thus I would have to convert my flac to MKV files with some video or static image on it).
If you think that these files deserve to be played as audio without the hassle of transcoding to video, let me know.
I will pack all the debug files so you can check it as per your heart's content.
Additionally, I have noticed the following things:
A) Mplayers tries to transcode them as 2 channels, instead of 5.1 I have seen this in UMS debug.
B) PS3 seems more willing to play these files when I select "48 Khz" rather than "44,1 /172 .... Khz" option on XMB audio properties,
it reachs up to the music player screen (where you see earth or the other interactive backgrounds), but no audio is coming from it,
and it looks like if it were paused instead of playing (timer doesn't count).
Just for your reference, my PS3 fat is in latest official firmware and I have an Onkyo 5.1 amp connected through HDMI to PS3, so yes,
I could enjoy 5.1 soundtracks if able to play them. I do not use "bitstream" settings on my PS3 since it's the fat version, although my Onkyo
do supports Dolby TrueHD or DTS HD streams.
Thank you very much in advance for reading such boring post.
(Sorry for the multiple editions to the original post, the more I think and test about it, the more things I found related)
Good day to you all.
I have found that I'm unable to play 5.1 - 48 Khz FLAC with UMS (PMS doesn't play them either) in all versions that I have checked.
In fact, I do not think that this issue is caused by UMS, most probably is the lack of audio formats supported by PS3 itself.
Let me give you a brief background about this.
I have been using Subjunk PMS build for a long time before moving to UMS since I'm quite satisfied with his
good job with this software, never had a single problem.
A few weeks ago I put my hands over a certain soundtrack of certain PS3 game.
The soundtrack has been extracted with a certain method from the game itself, so
it's 5.1 instead of the usual stereo crap and it's 48 Khz, not 96 Khz as many flac files that I could find around.
As I have a few 48 Khz stereo FLAC from other amazon purchases, I tried to play them with the same UMS version and
they worked sucesfully, but the 5.1 flac files fail directly with an "incompatible media" error on PS3.
Please, someone could confirm my suspicions?.
I think that PS3 can not play 5.1 audio files, only video (and thus I would have to convert my flac to MKV files with some video or static image on it).
If you think that these files deserve to be played as audio without the hassle of transcoding to video, let me know.
I will pack all the debug files so you can check it as per your heart's content.
Additionally, I have noticed the following things:
A) Mplayers tries to transcode them as 2 channels, instead of 5.1 I have seen this in UMS debug.
B) PS3 seems more willing to play these files when I select "48 Khz" rather than "44,1 /172 .... Khz" option on XMB audio properties,
it reachs up to the music player screen (where you see earth or the other interactive backgrounds), but no audio is coming from it,
and it looks like if it were paused instead of playing (timer doesn't count).
Just for your reference, my PS3 fat is in latest official firmware and I have an Onkyo 5.1 amp connected through HDMI to PS3, so yes,
I could enjoy 5.1 soundtracks if able to play them. I do not use "bitstream" settings on my PS3 since it's the fat version, although my Onkyo
do supports Dolby TrueHD or DTS HD streams.
Thank you very much in advance for reading such boring post.
(Sorry for the multiple editions to the original post, the more I think and test about it, the more things I found related)