I've only done stereo DVD-A rip-->FLAC-->playback, is there a primer anywhere for ripping, storing (FLAC) and playing back multichannel tracks with foobar2k?
Btw, it's kind of sad how many DVD-A (checking stereo only so far) are turning out to be 'loudness wars' victims. Queen's 'Night at the Opera' looks better on the recent anniversary CD, than on the DVD-A from 2002. The recent Talking Heads dualdiscs are also quite dynamically limited as is Yes 'Fragile' and the Who's 'Tommy'. DVD-A tracks from Billy Cobham, Neil Young, and Deep Purple, however, display 'natural' , expansive waveforms. I can post screencaps if anyone's interested.
Curiosities: The Queen ANatO stereo tracks are stored on the DVD-A as one gigantic LPCM file. Interesting 'authoring' there. The Talking Heads 'Speaking in Tongues' Dualdisc has the L/R channels reversed in the DVD-A stereo version compared to the CD track.