little-endian said:
Doesn’t that plugin already output the correct mix including generating the LFE out of the bass part contained in the rear channels? Actually it should be possible to create a FLAC file or other format “on the fly” directly in Foobar as well.
Well, it kind of does. It does output all 6 channels, including the LFE channel, but for my purposes I wanted more than just a single file of all combined channels.
The CD-ROM disc contains PLAYLIST.TXT, DTS.EXE, and a folder called DTS. Inside the DTS folder are 4 files. Each file contains roughly a 20 minute section of audio from the movie. All 6 channels for that 20 minute section of the film are contained in each single file. For example, the file “S1003T6.R1” contains the first 20 minutes of 6-channel audio in the movie, starting from the DTS logo at the start of the movie till about the time the helicopter lands on the island.
https://i.imgur.com/CXTyyKT
The problem is that Foobar couldn’t open those 4 files in their native format on the CD-ROM. The files on the disc didn’t have a recognizable file extension. So, I copied the disc files to my computer and added the .AUD extension to each file. I was then able to open the files and play them back in Foobar. I still wanted to take a look at the individual waveforms themselves, so I used Foobar to convert the .AUD files to .WAV files. Each .WAV file contains all 6 discrete channels, although some of the individual tracks are paired as a L/R stereo track.
Opening each .WAV file in an audio editing app allowed me to separate those paired stereo tracks back into individual mono tracks that I could then pan left or right depending on what the track was. And I could isolate each individual track and listen to them separately, just for fun.
https://i.imgur.com/mIXa7Ls