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Old 30th May 2018, 15:26   #14672  |  Link
Yoshi
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@tebasuna51

Thanks for your clarification. However, could you elaborate on having the dialog normalization removed without decoding it to PCM? From what I've learned now, as long as I use eac3to, it won't matter since the flag will be ignored anyway, right? However, unless I want to feed other programs or decoders with those encoded files, what is the essential purpose then of having it removed in the first place?

Isn't the approach to have the dialog normalization embedded just in case for playback purposes and ignoring it selectively whenever decoding it to PCM?

In other words - if I got this correctly, the only thing eac3to still cannot do is removing the dialog normalization info from a DTS-HD source while otherwise keeping it "as is", however decoding it will give us the PCM with dialog normalization ignored. What would be the purpose of having an altered DTS-HD file then with adjusted frames, CRC, etc. then?
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