Convert DTS CD to everything...

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by daphy
Hi,
Ive read lots of postings around DTS but I cant get the point how to convert a DTS-DVD Track (~480 MB)(Santana Supernatural live) via Besure and SurCode DVD/CD DTS into a DTS Audio CDROM.

1.First problem: extracting from the VOB - I managed this with smartripper -
cons Ive got ONE file no matter if I use chapter splitting or not
target is to have chapters on a DTS-WAV CD not only one track.
I found a little tool at http://home.zonnet.nl/koelooptiemanna/graphics.html called DTS Trimmer This one did good work in cut& merging a DTS DVD-File (maybe dspguru is able to integrate the code in beslit/besweet )

your search should had found this thread, not to mentinon q16 in the BeSweet FAQ (! Read before...).
if you care about my prefered method, i rip a single dts stream, and then slice it into chapters using Chapter-X-Tractor + BeSplit.

2. Now Ive got the DTS file(s) and dont know how to contiune because besure cant handle DTS as input (correct me if I am wrong, I instantly hope I am wrong . )

wait for BeSure v1.3

3. Result of the conversition would be 6 mono wav files at 48khz -> one solution would be to use surcode dvd dts to convert those files into one DTS-WAV file while downmixing it to 44.1khz. If this is possible I dont know because of step two - one thing could happen is that the sound speed changes or surcode doesnt allow this at all.
Second solution could be to downmix the single tracks to 44.1khz using soundtools like cooledit/wavlab... and then convert with surcode, this should work in any case

4. Normalizing a complete DTS Track without besure (see 2.) is not that easy, even the multi channel programms like cooledit sucks - you have to this manually with fixed amprates on each channel.
Second idea is the program mx51 (minnetoka like the surcode app) - this program doesnt seamed to be very handy but maybe it could manage it
If someones got a better idea ...

if you care about my prefered method, i use BeSweet v1.5b17 with a ".mux" file and "-6ch" switch to downsample the 6 48khz waves into 6 normalized 44.1khz waves.

[daphy]

thx dspguru, I will check this out

CYA Daphy