[SOLVED] Using Audacity for Surround Sound?

[bgravato]

Ok I got ffmpeg working (I had 0.6 and audacity only works with 0.5). I can now successfully import the 48 and 96 files into audacity. The 44 one still fails of course because audacity thinks it's a stereo wav file, which is not. I don't know how to workaround this without changing the file.

Now the funny thing... I can correctly play the 44 and 96 files with mplayer, but it fails to play the 48 file (apparently something about not being able to read the file header correctly).

In VLC I can play all the 3 files correctly...

To sum up, I think the problem is with the files' headers, which seem to be different in all the 3 files. Whether you'll be able to open the files or not looks like will depend on how the program used will read/decode/understand those headers...

[bgravato]

The easiest way I found for being able to open that file with audacity was to use mplayer's dumpaudio to create a new file like this:

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mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile newfile.wav xtest-hd_dolby_truehd_channel_check_lossy_5.1_16_44_dts_cd.wav

I could then successfully import newfile.wav into audacity.