It's all a bit of a bugger and no mistake.
I confess I am not looking forward to getting things working again when I finally get my DAW back - this will also be a secondary Blu-ray system, and as such will require Java to be at a certain level (or SafeGuard will not run) as well as a second install of Java (for the MAS encoder) - I may well end up trying to install the MAS encoder on the primary Blu-ray authoring system but the drawback there is again the potential for conflicts in the Java runtimes and I cannot live without SafeGuard working as it is absolutely mandatory for us to be using signed certificates now we are loading graphic content straight off the discs using the 00000 folder in the JAR section.
It all seems to me to be a bit on the risky side to chance breaking a working Safeguard application just to get a perishing encoder installed.
Needless to say DTS are of no help at all - all I have had back from them is that the MAS encoder is no longer developed or supported and I need to upgrade to the DTS-X encoder - which is currently Mac OSX only so not much help there considering that I dropped close to $1500 on this software in the first place.
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