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Old 27th March 2009, 02:11   #2209  |  Link
Furiousflea
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Originally Posted by A.Fenderson View Post
Interesting, and thank you for the information/advice--but I used eac3to (with HD-DVD/Blu-ray Stream Extractor) to extract the EAC3 stream as AC3: I believe this down-converts it to standard, BD-compliant AC3/DD audio (can someone confirm?). In fact, the audio plays back just fine (via Media Player Classic) on the resulting m2ts workfile after BD-RB has successfully completed, but not at all on the output m2ts file in the BD structure that BD-RB creates as its final step.
I use the exact steps that guy listed. Extract to wavs and encode with DTS Surcode...(surecode is not free). Nero BD\HD DVD plugin is also NOT free. Having Nero (must be version 7) installed is not enough. You have to pay for a serial to use the BD\HD DVD plugin. Also before you think of saving a few quid, there is NO valide keygen that will work to enable BD\HD DVD playback (even though it will say the serial is active, it won't active that Directshow decoding).

I only mention this piracy aspect, to avoid bug reports here. I do not advocate it and have actually purchased the plugin seperately. Think its about £15.

I'm not suggesting you are pirating, just a heads up if you find a brick wall etc.

To verify your extracted AC3 stream is valid, does it load ok when you add it to TSmuxer GUI? Is it listed as AC3.

( AC3+ IS in the Bluray standard. But the standard dictates that it can only be used on surround audio with more than 5.1 channels. However I can tell you 100% that it is actually used on a few of my Blurays as a mono directors commentry track)

So it's very unlikely that is your problem, though I would recommend against using it, as it isn't technically correct and fussy players might stick their tounge out at you.

As I said, just make sure that TSmuxer is showing an AC3 stream, make sure you chose a language or whatever also in the GUI.

Finally, just because your AC3 stream is playable doesn't mean it is valid for bluray...

I think HD DVDs have an AC3 core in the AC3+ track so you shouldn't need anything apart from eac3to....come to think of it? lol

Last edited by Furiousflea; 27th March 2009 at 02:17.
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