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Old 15th March 2009, 15:35   #8541  |  Link
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depending on the sountrack being 1.5mbit DTS core or FLAC(from DTSHD in eac3to), the sound levels are much different ?!
I can hardly hear dialogs in DTSHD FLAC and need to increase the center channel to like 140%

I've got all DRC disabled in AC3Filter and it's the same story w/ ffdshow/sonic 4.2 for DTS core, so what gives ?!

it happens in all the DTSHD>FLAC tracks I've built, and forcing dialog normalization in ea3to doesn't do anything(same CRC whether it's enabled or not)

OTOH transcoding LPCM in FLAC gives proper sound levels, identical to DTS core

if anyone's got a clue, I'd love to hear it. thanks!
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Old 15th March 2009, 18:40   #8542  |  Link
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I am not sure since what version the following problem is (I had V3.12 and just tried V3.14), but eac3to can not read m2ts files anymore. So when I point to the root of the ripped BD, I get the report as usual. But when I add the title index, eac3to reports there is an error reading xxxxx.m2ts. I am using CrossOver on Mac OS-X 10.5. For the record, this has always worked perfectly fine with older versions. CrossOver has not been updated in the meantime.
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Old 15th March 2009, 22:17   #8543  |  Link
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Madshi I just got this reply from the tsmuxer folks

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the order of PCM 7.1 should be L R C LS Rls Rrs RS lfe
is that the order that you put pcm in for 7.1 with eac3to?

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Old 15th March 2009, 23:29   #8544  |  Link
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5.0 channel DTS can't seem to be converted to AC3.
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The AC3 encoder received a non-supported data format (pcm, 5, 16, -).
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Old 16th March 2009, 00:02   #8545  |  Link
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Madshi, not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request but anyway...

If I feed eac3to a duff audio file it reports "The format of the source file could not be detected." but the return code is 0. Could it be changed to non-zero please? It seems to be rc 1 for other source file errors.

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Old 16th March 2009, 00:13   #8546  |  Link
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5.0 channel DTS can't seem to be converted to AC3.
You can use the external encoder Aften:

eac3to source.dts stdout.wav | aften -b 640 -readtoeof 1 - output.ac3
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Old 16th March 2009, 03:45   #8547  |  Link
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eac3to can't see Nero 7 or Arcsoft TMT

I have Nero 7 installed and just picked up a copy of Arcsoft TMT a friend had and didn't want, primarily to play HD-DVD's since my included PDVD7 with my LG BD/HD-DVD drive only plays BD.

Anyway eac3to can't see either giving the following error messages

Nero Audio Decoder (Nero 7) is not working correctly
http://www.nero.com/eng/store-blu-ray.html
CAUTION: You need Nero 7. Nero 8 won't work with eac3to.
ArcSoft DTS Decoder doesn't seem to be installed
http://www.arcsoft.com/products/totalmediatheatre

According to what I have read the DTS decoder is via the filter ASAudioHD.ax which according to this DS filter chain, is installed



Also I know Nero 7 is installed since I use it regularly.

This is on Vista Home Premium 32

Anything else I should be looking out for?

Thanks

[edit]

OK some progress. Looks like a path or environment variable issue. Copied all the DLL's from Arcsoft's directory to the eac3to directory and now the Arcsoft DTS decoder works fine. Still no joy with Nero though

Out of interest what DS filter is eac3to looking for when it checks for Nero?

Thanks

[EDIT again!]

Have gone through this thread again and it seems you need not only Nero 7 but the nero HD-DVD plugin. That's no longer been sold so I guess I am stuck with using libav which seems to be fine

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Old 16th March 2009, 11:33   #8548  |  Link
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6 mono wavs to 5.1 FLAC

I have 6 mono wavs (synced), and now I don't know how can I make a 5.1 FLAC file from it.

Can somebody help me with this?

Thank you!

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Old 16th March 2009, 12:19   #8549  |  Link
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I have 6 mono wavs (synced), and now I don't know how can I make a 5.1 FLAC file from it.
You can use WaveWizard or Sox (command line) to merge the 6 channels in one multichannel wav file, and Flac or ea3to to convert to flac.

Also you can use an .avs (AviSynth script) and BeHappy to convert directly to flac without the intermediate multichannel wav file.
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Old 16th March 2009, 21:27   #8550  |  Link
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Then, perhaps you should include a note in the download that states that this is presently a non-functioning option of your GUI...
It's working now.

http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=25818&page=56
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Old 16th March 2009, 21:42   #8551  |  Link
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Having an issue with a specific movie - The Game Plan. The video appears to rip just fine but the audio track is a mess I have gone after the DTS and the AC3 5.1 tracks to no avail. When I rip it I get normal fine audio and then a few minutes into the track it loops back to the beginning! If I FFWD a bit I get normal dialog again - then a few mins later it loops back to the starting music again. After about the 3rd time I gave up I have now ripped it 3 times trying various things to include two copies of the movie to no avail. Has anyone else done this one and what issues if any did you encounter? I am on 3.14 and haven't ever seen this before. Ideas or suggestions?

Here's my log -> http://pastebin.com/m2d93e154
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Old 16th March 2009, 23:26   #8552  |  Link
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If I feed eac3to a duff audio file it reports "The format of the source file could not be detected." but the return code is 0. Could it be changed to non-zero please? It seems to be rc 1 for other source file errors.

Thanks.
Following on from this I've been trying to work out why eac3to doesn't like some (but not all) of my input files. I used eac3to to create a wav file from a pcm input:
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eac3to v3.14
command line: "D:\Vtemp\programs\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "test.pcm" "E:\Vtemp\test1.wav" -6 -24 -little -96000 -override -log=1.txt
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RAW/PCM, 5.1 channels, 1:38:26, 24 bits, 13824kbps, 96khz
Reading RAW/PCM...
Writing WAV...
Creating file "E:\Vtemp\test1.wav"...
The original audio track has a constant bit depth of 24 bits.
Caution: The WAV file is bigger than 4GB.  <WARNING>
Some WAV readers might not be able to handle this file correctly.  <WARNING>
eac3to processing took 9 minutes, 41 seconds.
Done.
If I then run eac3to on the output wav file I get:
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eac3to v3.14
command line: "D:\Vtemp\programs\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "E:\Vtemp\test1.wav" -log=t1.txt
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The format of the source file could not be detected.  <ERROR>
I've been trying to find out why this file does not work and other apparently similar ones do and the difference seems to be the amount of silence at the beginning of the file. This file contains 11866608 bytes = 6.86725 seconds of silence at the beginning. I tried editing the first six samples to non-zero values and it's then detected by eac3to.

I've created two test files (the original is 10GB) containing the first 15MB of the wav file. I've edited the first six samples of test2.wav and it can be processed. I've left test3.wav as is and it can't be detected. The lengths in the header remain as they are from the original file. I found that if I change the lengths in the RIFF and data chunks in test3.wav to zero then eac3to will detect it. However this doesn't work with the full sized original.

Thank you!
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Old 17th March 2009, 01:33   #8553  |  Link
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Yes, seems a bug.
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Old 17th March 2009, 07:55   #8554  |  Link
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eac3to can't seem to recognize AAC files it made.
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Old 17th March 2009, 09:41   #8555  |  Link
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eac3to can't seem to recognize AAC files it made.
Eac3to recognize (and can decode with Nero, without plugins) .aac files. Is AAC format with ADTS headers.

Can't recognize AAC inside mp4 container (.mp4 or .m4a).

The use of the faad decoder (aac/m4a, inside libav) or NeroAacDec is in the todo list of madshi like he say.

Edit: By the moment you can use the Faad decoder included in UsEac3to
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Old 17th March 2009, 13:51   #8556  |  Link
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I have Nero7 on my system to use the e-ac3 decoder. I want to get rid of Nero, because I use other tools for burning stuff and Nero just occupies to much space and resources.

How can I get rid of Nero but keep the e-ac3 decoder and/or the necessary libraries/files? Is that possible?

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Old 17th March 2009, 14:39   #8557  |  Link
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Easiest just to de- and re-install with only Showtime, taking care to skip the Scout & other unneeded junk, though I think there remains an indexing service you still have to Disable by hand.
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Old 17th March 2009, 19:38   #8558  |  Link
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Can't recognize AAC inside mp4 container (.mp4 or .m4a).
I hadn't even noticed that the files it was making were .m4a.

Thanks for the continued support tebasuna51.

Edit: I just noticed that eac3to displays a 2.0 channel AAC track in mkv as being 24KHz when its really 48KHz.

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Old 18th March 2009, 00:58   #8559  |  Link
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Hey, I got a 20gig m2ts file containing several episodes in it. I want to demux the video and audio separately to mkv and flac.

Can I split m2ts files by chapters? If so, how?
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Old 18th March 2009, 01:21   #8560  |  Link
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Edit: I just noticed that eac3to displays a 2.0 channel AAC track in mkv as being 24KHz when its really 48KHz.
Then is a AAC-HE (with Spectral Band Replication) the high frequencies (24-48KHz) are in the SBR part, not always recognized. With the appropriate decoder you can recover the 48 KHz.
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