DCC2WAV

While using DCC-Studio, the audio is played via the output of the
DCC-recorder (it has a headphone output, and aux output and an optical
digital output), not via the PC's sound card. So in order to use DCC-Studio
you always have to connect the recorder (you can only do some file management
if the program doesn't detect it). A few weeks ago Philips released a program
to convert PASC files to WAV files and vice versa. It was distributed to all
registered (Dutch?) owners of the set on a floppy. It works, but it's very
slow: it takes 30 seconds to convert 1 second of PASC to WAV on my DX4/100.
It's a bit strange that Philips has a real-time MPEG-audio decoder available
on their website (as you may know PASC, the encoding scheme of DCC is similar
to MPEG compression layer 1) but can't decode PASC files at reasonable speed.
I hope they will improve this by optimizing the program. BTW the MPEG section
of Philips' site is http://www-eu.philips.com/sv/newtech/mpeg .