Display of audio settings on Blu-ray movies

[Baseball3]

When I try and change the audio settings I see only something on the bottom left of my screen that reads: english 1, english 2, french, etc. Is there a way to tell which one is Uncompressed PCM, TrueHD, DD, etc? My Onkyo 605 shows Multichannel PCM, of course. But, how would one know if english 1 was the PCM track, for instance?

[saprano]

i think the multichannel means its pcm?

[saprano]

what kind of player do you have? does it decode those sound internally?

[Baseball3]

Originally Posted by saprano

what kind of player do you have? does it decode those sound internally?

I have PS3. When I get to the blur-ray disc menu and the audio setting I see only what I posted earlier: eng1, eng2, french, etc. I do not see a choice for selecting the audio format other than those above and I have no idea which one is which. Many thanks.

[saprano]

what about the top of the sreen when you press select, does it say anything.

[saprano]

Originally Posted by Baseball3

When I try and change the audio settings I see only something on the bottom left of my screen that reads: english 1, english 2, french, etc. Is there a way to tell which one is Uncompressed PCM, TrueHD, DD, etc? My Onkyo 605 shows Multichannel PCM, of course. But, how would one know if english 1 was the PCM track, for instance?

what kind of movie(s) is it? are you sure it has those formats.

[Baseball3]

Originally Posted by saprano

what kind of movie(s) is it? are you sure it has those formats.

The movie 300 has Dolby TrueHD, English 5.1 PCM, English DD 5.1, French 5.1 and Spanish 5.1 as available formats. Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer has DTS HD 5.1 and 5.1 Dolby Surround and others. I thought I would simply see such information displayed rather than eng1, eng2, etc as I have seen. What do I need to do in order to see English 5.1 PCM displayed as opposed to eng1 for example. I am referring to the display on the TV while playing the disc and/or changing the audio settings.

Again, thanks for the help.

[kx11]

press select n the ps3 controller then change the audio options , you'll see the top info's changing

[Baseball3]

Originally Posted by kx11

press select n the ps3 controller then change the audio options , you'll see the top info's changing

What if I am using the BD remote and not the PS3 remote? Any ideas there? I will give your information a look now. Thanks.

[kx11]

if it's the remote you'r using then there must be a INFO button , try it

[Baseball3]

Originally Posted by kx11

press select n the ps3 controller then change the audio options , you'll see the top info's changing

and I appreciate the tip. I will give things a try now with the BD remote.

Where do you folks find out these things? I have learned a great deal here.

[Baseball3]

the Display button will let me get to that same screen and make changes from there. What is the information following the audio display and what does it mean?

[He-Man]

Yes, the display button on the remote will tell you exactly what audio format you are outputting (the upper righthand corner), selet audio English 1 and press display, then press audio English 2 if there's a second English Audio track on the disc, the display will change once you switch 1 track to another. The information after the display (i'm assuming you're seeing numbers like 28 mbps, 33 mbps......etc?), i think that is the transfer rate for your video (i could be wrong) @ how many megabits per second, the higher the transfer rate the better the video will look. Normal DVDs have transfer rates up to 8 mbps, but BDs can have up to 48 mbps, though i have yet to see a BD that goes up to 48, i think it changes every so often that it's hard to catch.

[Whytewash]

What I do is load the pop up menu on the screen and go to "set up" and select which audio I want from there. You can pick the audio that you want, then just close the menu. That seems the easiest for me...

[Baseball3]

Originally Posted by Whytewash

What I do is load the pop up menu on the screen and go to "set up" and select which audio I want from there. You can pick the audio that you want, then just close the menu. That seems the easiest for me...

steps on how to do that and which remote you are using.

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by Baseball3

steps on how to do that and which remote you are using.

its one of the Bluray disc menu options...usually "set-up" or "Languages"...then you select which audio format you want to use. Then play movie. Then hit "display" on your bd remote.

It should display what audio format is playing. If you see a transfer rate higher than 1.5Mbps (usually 3Mbps+) for audio, then you are hearing the HD formats.

Also, the PS3 should be outputing via Linear PCM.

[Deciazulado]

When you use the PS3 on screen display it shows on the upper right corner of its letterbox black bar things like 48 kHz DolbyDigital or DTS or LPCM and their audio bitrates (usually 640 kb/s for DD, 1.5 Mb/s for DTS, and 4.6 Mb/s for 16 bit LPCM and 6.9 Mb/s for 24 bit) etc, followed by the video codec (mpeg-2/VC-1/AVC) and its video bitrate (typically from 5 Mb/s to 40 Mb/s, depending on the codec and the complexity of the scene)

If you have the PS3's onscreen display on, you can see the audio part change as you cycle through all the audio languages if they have different audio specs.

[Aclar00]

What you are doing is changing the auido language options. On DVDs and i assume Blu-Ray disc, you need to go to the audio menu of the actually disc itself to change the outputted format.