my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Operations   » Film Handlers' Forum   » DTS--6AD playback w/o timecode

Author Topic: DTS--6AD playback w/o timecode Jonathan Froes Film Handler Posts: 26 From: phoenix az USA Registered: Aug 2010 posted 06-07-2012 06:29 PM                     is there anyway to play dts disks on a 6ad with no timecode?  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-09-2012 01:26 AM                     You need the timecode to play back in DTS. Timecode syncs up with the data stored in cache memory to each assigned frame for analog playback. The CD drives are read ahead in which the data from the CD is stored in the cache memory from the discs.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Froes Film Handler Posts: 26 From: phoenix az USA Registered: Aug 2010 posted 06-09-2012 01:52 AM                     i'm guessing this only applies to the 6AD right? i thought it could be modified like the 6 and the 6d.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 06-09-2012 07:34 AM                     Modified into what? All DTS units need a timecode at the reader input to play standard feature DTS discs. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-09-2012 09:36 AM                     DTS 6 and 6Ds could "wild" play. If you put in a self-play disc (such as Empirical Test Disc) as well as the feature disc, it would wild play at least the first reel, as I recall.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-09-2012 11:06 AM                        From what I recall it was only a certain revision or two of the Empirical Test Disc which let you do this. It was EXTRAORDINARILY helpful. We played the first reel of Toy Story 2 which was great to test sound on.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-09-2012 11:22 AM                     I used to use "Spiderman" R-1 all the time.  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-09-2012 12:45 PM                     I know for the DTS6, you can make a self playing disc out of the Empirical test disc. Using a computer, capture an ISO of the Empirical test disc. Then using an iso editing program, go in under the DTS folder replace the existing files with different audio files. Save the changes and burn the iso out to a new blank disk. When you put this disc in, it will start playing R1T5.AUD and so on in sequence. This doesn't work using *.AUE files used on newer titles.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-09-2012 05:48 PM                     If you install a VGA card, and a keyboard on a 6D, you can play without timecode. Let the disc "ready' in the player, then hit "esc". Chose #2 - play without time code, then chose the track number on the disc. This will not work with .AUE files.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-10-2012 03:25 AM                        Do you really need the VGA card? Why not just the keyboard?  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 06-10-2012 05:07 AM                     As Bruce mentioned, this does not work with AUE files anymore, hence it only works with very old titles. I am not sure whether the DTS.EXE on DS5 test disk is compatible with AUE or not. If it is, it may work! You don't really need a VGA card, if you know the sequence of buttons to press. If "system" stops blinking, reboot and start over!  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Froes Film Handler Posts: 26 From: phoenix az USA Registered: Aug 2010 posted 06-10-2012 11:40 AM                     i understand a modded 6 and the 6d will play most discs including some new ones. i have mine modified already and yes it does work just push escape and select play with no timecode. but my question was really about the 6AD. can it be modified like the 6 and the 6d?. does it even have a slot for a video card or a keyboard input?  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 06-10-2012 02:06 PM                     why would you modify a DTS player to play disks?  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-10-2012 03:42 PM                     i tried including DTS.EXE from a title using .AUE files onto my self playing experimental disc and it did not work.  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.