[Help] Armageddon 1998 Laserdisc audio?

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Absolutely could be made into DTSHD-MA. Although I personally don't see the point. Am a fan of FLAC. But to each their own, both is possible and ultimately it doesn't make a difference, both being lossless.

May I ask why FLAC is the more important container?  Is it because you know your hardware reads it or something?

Not more important surely, but I prefer it for two reasons. Firstly, unlike DTS-HD MA, when you play it, you know 100% certain you are getting lossless audio, where DTS-HD MA often falls back to the DTS Core without notifying you when your software can't play it (hint: most PC players can't). Secondly and perhaps more importantly, I feel like DTS-HD MA is a giant scam and I don't feel like supporting it. It's both bigger than FLAC bitrate-wise (because of the embedded core in DTS-HD MA), less compatible when it comes to computer software, and ridiculously more expensive. Basically, they are taking money for ... nothing. Lossless audio is not a new invention, and their codec is nothing special. The only thing that makes it special is how expensive it is and how they keep it proprietary and basically put rocks in the way of everyone who wants to en- or decode it. Thousands of dollars to ... encode lossless audio in a bloated codec? Is this a joke?

The only reason to use DTS-HD MA in my opinion is compatibility, which is due to DTS's market share / wide-spread hardware, which is frankly inexplicable to me.

I have less issues with TrueHD. At least that one doesn't just quietly give you non-lossless audio and isn't as bloated bitrate-wise.

DTS:X may be another story, as I believe it has that object-based stuff, which admittedly is kinda cool, like Atmos. But DTS-HD MA is just lossless audio, so why not use FLAC?