One of my findings was that the RSX-1065 (this is also true for the RSX-1055/RSP-1066) does not decode MPEG-2 multi channel audio. In the early days of DVD this MPEG-2 was supposed to be the standard for Europe. But lucky for us, the standard became Dolby Digital. Unfortunately some DVD's in region 2 have MPEG-2 audio, mostly on the extra's. Recently in The Netherlands Warner issued the DVD called Minoes (a Dutch story)and for the deleted scenes they used MPEG-2 audio. The problem is that the RSX-1065 does not decode MPEG-2 and in that case chooses MP3 and gives no sound.
I brought this issues to the attention of Rotel, but their response was that MPEG-2 audio is not supported.
But I'm a little puzzled here. The DSP chip used is the CS49326. From the Cirrus Logic website I learn that this DSP chip does support MPEG-2 audio. These are their specs:
CS4932X: AVR sub-family
Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro-Logic II
DTS & DTS-ES decoding with integrated DTS tables
Cirrus Original Surround 5.1 PCM Enhancement
MPEG-2, Advanced Audio Coding Algorithm (AAC)
MPEG Multi-channel
MP3 (MPEG-1, Layer 3)
As you can see, MPEG-2 is also one of the specs. So why doesn't the RSX-1065 (and the RSP-1066/RSX-1055) decode the MPEG-2 audiostream properly?
I brought this issues to the attention of Rotel, but their response was that MPEG-2 audio is not supported.
But I'm a little puzzled here. The DSP chip used is the CS49326. From the Cirrus Logic website I learn that this DSP chip does support MPEG-2 audio. These are their specs:
CS4932X: AVR sub-family
Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro-Logic II
DTS & DTS-ES decoding with integrated DTS tables
Cirrus Original Surround 5.1 PCM Enhancement
MPEG-2, Advanced Audio Coding Algorithm (AAC)
MPEG Multi-channel
MP3 (MPEG-1, Layer 3)
As you can see, MPEG-2 is also one of the specs. So why doesn't the RSX-1065 (and the RSP-1066/RSX-1055) decode the MPEG-2 audiostream properly?
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