Please show me how to listen to hi-rez audio embedded in films

Willand,

you suggest  "Since your Bel Canto does not have HDMI, you must let the player decode and do the D/A converting and send it analog to your DAC."

?? BUT sending an analog already dac'd signal to my Bel Canto does not compute....you mean to the Bel Canto just to use it as a preamp/volume control??
OR
have you tried using an HDMI de-embedder??

I see your Bel Canto does not have analog pass-thru so I am not sure it can be done at all.  There may be a work around but I can't give you an honest answer to that.

Bill

I use my blu-ray with HDMI output into my Denon  5.1 home theater gizmo....but don't sweat it...not a big deal improvement