HDCD CDs and transcoding

[Alandbush]

(22-02-2021 19:55)vkshankar Wrote:  BTW I already tried wav:L24 and my renderer played "pink noise".
Same effect with -c:a pcm_s24le option. Please note my rendered cannot handle wav format. Si I will have to convert to lpcm.

Sorry, but at least that's been tried.

Considering the generally small number of hdcds made, way back when, and your players inability to handle wav over UPNP, maybe it's time to consider offline conversion.

Ffmpeg can clearly produce a converted output wav file.
DBpoweramp cd ripper can do so likewise.
There may be others.

Once it's done, the converted file should be treated like any other non encoded wav file.