AC3->WAV->AC3 using besweet+softencode, is azid unnecessary?

[Matthew]

i.e. is this okay as an AC3->WAV solution before encoding to 5.1 using softencode?

BeSweet.exe -core( -input C:\hello\dolly.ac3 -output C:\hello\dolly -6ch -logfilea C:\hello\BeSweet.log ) -ota( -r 23976 25000)

Thanks :)

[AllTimeSToneD]

This is interesting... since Ac3enc.dll support was dropped due its crappiness...

Your commandline looks right.
Btw... how do you determine the "Dialog normalization" later in softencode? And is there anyway to read out what "Dynamic compression characteristic" was used in the original Ac3 file?

Im looking for a close lossless re-encode of 5.1 Ac3(25) to 5.1 Ac3(23) or vice versa.

[Matthew]

I have no idea how to read those details from a AC3(at a guess I'd be surpised if you could).

As for perfect PAL->NTSC and vice versa, pitch is often going to be an issue. Of course, not all retail PAL DVDs are pitch corrected (in fact it's possible most aren't - I don't know) so it can't be that big a deal for non-audiophiles. That also means if you take a non-pitch corrected PAL DVD and then convert it to NTSC, pitch won't be an issue, as you will be returning the audio to its film pitch (well, ever so slightly lower).

[AllTimeSToneD]

Well i know how to determine the Dialog normalization of a stereo wave file but i haven't tryed to determine one of a ac3 or a 6-channel wave file yet. I will post my results later here then.