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Naive question about digital encoding

I have what it likely a very naive question about the digital input to my DAC, but its puzzled me for a while and I'd like to understand what's happening.

I have an older DAC that I have connected to my DVD player which acts as a transport. Regardless of whether I play CD's or DVD's, the whole thing works and the system sounds fine. The DAC is designed to accept a 16 bit/44 khz signal, and I assume that the DVD audio is encoded at 24/96. What's happening with the DAC when I play DVD audio through it? I would expect to hear nothing intelligible since the formats presumably aren't the same, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Can anyone explain what's being output by the DVD player in both cases, and how the DAC is able to interpret both types of input?

Thanks, Ken
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Thanks for all of the responses. As always, when all else fails, RTFM. The DVD player has an option buried deep in the setup menu for specifying the format of the digital output, which in my case is set as "incompatible with 96khz". I'll have to assume this means that it outputs 16/44.1.

I should do my homework before posting :-}.

Thanks again. Ken
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