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Hi,

Is it ok to link the optical output of my LG3350 to the optical input of my Sony Minidisc recorder? I wish to record audio from audio cd/mp3 and dvd.

Cheers,
Andy.

I have a Mico DVD player and I have recorded from Mp3/CD to Mini-disc using the optical output fine

Whilst you should certainly be able to record MP3 & CD output digitally, you will not be able to record the DVD soundtrack as it is output as a Dolby Digital datastream not 44.1/48KHz 16bit PCM, you`ll have to go via analogue.

Thanks 4 yor help guys!

Hold on one cotton picking minute:

I thought you could select what comes out of the optical output? In the menus on my Proline you can at least, you can select DD, PCM and MPEG output.

Surely you can record using the optical out so long as you set it to use PCM?

It makes sense to me at least.

Yep, set it to PCM, because if you don`t, sparks will fly....KABOOOOM

You mean I was actually right for once?!!!!!!

JOY!!!!

Sparks you say?

Ok Ok.....not exactly sparks!!! I was trying to add to the drama.
Basically the MD recorder will explode!!! In to a thousand pieces!!


No, really, it is not adviseable to stick anything else than PCM into your MD recorder

Ooops, I forgot about changing the digital out mode on my DVD player as suggested, so I tried it. It`s a case of so close but so far (for me at least) My player when set to output PCM only, will indeed provide the decoded DD soundtrack including the 5 to 2 channel `Pro Logic` downmixing. The digital output appears to be in essence that provided to the on-board DVD D/A converters. However, it appears that the SCMS bits are set such that you cannot record the output, my MD recording spitting the words "SCMS prohibit` at me. If you have a SCMS stripper available then you ARE on to a winner, but if not then you`ll have to go analogue as I originally suggested. To be fair, the data compression algorithms of decompressing DD, downmixing and then compressing/decompressing with ATRAC are likely to hide the analogue artifacts, just watch those peak levels.

You may also want to try listening with the 5 to 2 channel downmix mode switched from `LtRt` (sort of pro-logic) to `LoRo` (which just adds all 5 channels together), the effects channels MAY `sit` a little better in the mix. You may even find that DD 2 channel soundtrack (ie the real pro-logic mix) if available will replay better still, depends on the movie. Try it!

PS. Make sure you disable `RF mode` and set `Line Mode` and set dynamic range compression to 0 otherwise you`ll throw all that movie dynamic range away!

This item was edited on Wednesday, 7th February 2001, 21:44