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Old 20th January 2008, 03:30   #2701  |  Link
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nautilus you are my hero !!!!
BTW, I open the troy.eac3 file (the one that worked from the beginning) just to compare and I found it has frames of 1280 bytes long and start with 0B 77 02 7F. It's that also ok, right?
Now eac3to works ok with the Fearless track, but tells me that the track is not clean and to use delaycut. I've tried that but delaycut doesn't recognize eac3 files, only dts and plain ac3...
(sorry bothering you..)

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Found delaycut 1.3.0.0 with EAC3 support !!!!
http://madshi.net/delaycut.rar
Thanks for your support
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Old 20th January 2008, 03:50   #2703  |  Link
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The troy.eac3 should be ok. It works right?

"Track is not clean" means there are corupted/bad frames in the track. Use delaycut version 1.3.0.0, which supports eac3. Search the forum to find it. Try the fix option. If you get a few errors, you either let it corect them, or cut a piece of the specific erroneous part and send me again. If it reports too many errors, maybe re-ripping the disc (if you have it) does the trick. But one step at a time.

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EDIT: You found delaycut!

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Old 20th January 2008, 04:01   #2704  |  Link
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I can reproduce the problem. But it's not a bug. The problem is that when eac3to begins to write the WAV file, it doesn't know yet how many samples the decoder will output exactly. As a result the WAV header is written in such a way that the WAV file seems to be empty. Because of this neroaac3enc aborts processing because it thinks the WAV file is empty.

You can easily "fix" the problem by adding the "-ignorelength" parameter to neroaacenc. It works just fine for me that way.
Thanks madshi to clarify the problem.

Yes, using always the -ignorelength parameter, NeroAacEnc work fine.

Also work Aften with -readtoeof 1 (if we need use the aften.exe instead libaften.dll to add some special parameter).

But oggenc2 seems can't work because don't have a similar parameter to override the 0 datalength.
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Old 20th January 2008, 09:53   #2705  |  Link
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the delay should actually only be 32ms max
Or maybe not.
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Old 20th January 2008, 09:56   #2706  |  Link
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Thanks madshi to clarify the problem.

Yes, using always the -ignorelength parameter, NeroAacEnc work fine.

Also work Aften with -readtoeof 1 (if we need use the aften.exe instead libaften.dll to add some special parameter).

But oggenc2 seems can't work because don't have a similar parameter to override the 0 datalength.
Can oggenc2 handle raw data? The problem is: If eac3to doesn't know the WAV size before having finished the conversion, how can it possibly write the correct size into the WAV header? It's just not possible. Of course eac3to can do a "best guess". For CBR sources this might work out pretty well. But for VBR the size would almost guaranteed to be wrong. So what size value should eac3to write into the WAV header?
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Old 20th January 2008, 10:09   #2707  |  Link
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Can oggenc2 handle raw data?
yes it does...

something like :
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eac3to.exe   ..... | oggenc2.exe --raw --raw-bits x --raw-chan y --raw-rate z --raw-endianness 1 -q 0.4 -o output.ogg -
where x,y,z are the appropriate values.

note about --raw-endianness : either 1 (bigendians) or 0 (little by default)
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Old 20th January 2008, 10:19   #2708  |  Link
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yes it does...

something like :
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eac3to.exe   ..... | oggenc2.exe --raw --raw-bits x --raw-chan y --raw-rate z --raw-endianness 1 -q 0.4 -o output.ogg -
where x,y,z are the appropriate values.

note about --raw-endianness : either 1 (bigendians) or 0 (little by default)
Cool - thanks!
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Old 20th January 2008, 12:27   #2709  |  Link
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Can oggenc2 handle raw data? The problem is: If eac3to doesn't know the WAV size before having finished the conversion, how can it possibly write the correct size into the WAV header? It's just not possible. Of course eac3to can do a "best guess". For CBR sources this might work out pretty well. But for VBR the size would almost guaranteed to be wrong. So what size value should eac3to write into the WAV header?
Yes, I know the problem with VBR files, must be read entirely until know the real size if not exist a global header with this info (like mp3, mp4 can have).

But using raw mode the problem is bigger, if oppening the input can't know these data, how the user can write this command line before open, even before extract, the input file?

I think the problem must be solved in oggenc and not in eac3to side, if a encoder accept STDIN input must provide a way to stop encode when the input finish.
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Old 20th January 2008, 13:37   #2710  |  Link
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Hi,
This is my first job.
Trying to convert flac to dts 1536kbps.
here is the screen:
[img=http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1473/beztytuurk8.th.jpg]
Please help.

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Old 20th January 2008, 13:50   #2711  |  Link
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I think the problem must be solved in oggenc and not in eac3to side, if a encoder accept STDIN input must provide a way to stop encode when the input finish.
I found a workaround to work with oggenc2. If we put at wav header fields:

RiffLength (offset 5) = 0xFFFFFF24 (instead 0x00000024)
DataLength (offset 41) = 0xFFFFFF00 (instead 0x00000000)

Note: 0xFFFFFF00 is a multiple of any possible BlockAlign for 1 to 8 channels, 8 to 64 bitdepth (avoiding problems with this check)

Only the dynamic % off encoded ogg seems be affected and finish without error at end off data.

NeroAacEnc and Aften with -ignorelength or -readtoeof 1 still work fine.
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I am having the following happen. eac3to runs the whole process, smoothly but in the end it does not write the audio in to the MKV. The Video is excellent but just no audio, audio extracts but is not used. Below is what I did the last time. I have tried other ways as well. eac3to -test shows all are working, except Surcode which is not installed. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I can mux the two files with MKVmerge manually and it plays flawlessly, also tried a clean install of MKVtoolnix no dice.

D:\EAC3>eac3to.exe "F:\FEATURE_1.EVO"+"F:\FEATURE_2.EVO" F:\audio.ac3" -640
EVO, 1 video track, 5 audio tracks, 2:14:04
1: Joined EVO file
2: VC-1, 1080p24 /1.001
3: E-AC3, 5.1 channels, 1536kbit/s, 48khz, dialnorm: -27d
4: DTS, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 1536kbit/s, 48khz
5: E-AC3, 5.1 channels, 768kbit/s, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
6: E-AC3, 5.1 channels, 768kbit/s, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
7: AC3, 2.0 channels, 192kbit/s, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
Muxing video to Matroska...
Extracting audio track number 4...
Decoding with DirectShow (Sonic Audio Decoder)...
DirectShow reports 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 48khz
Encoding AC3...
Creating/writing file "F:\audio.ac3"...
Rewriting MKV timecodes by using "mkvmerge". Please wait.

mkvmerge v2.1.0 ('Another Place To Fall') built on Aug 19
'F:\movie.old.mkv': Using the Matroska demultiplexer.
'F:\movie.old.mkv' track 1: Using the video output modu
The file 'F:\movie.mkv' has been opened for writing.
progress: 89%

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Old 20th January 2008, 14:53   #2713  |  Link
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Except that the command you posted here is not what you actually used (you have typos), eac3to doesn't mux video and audio to 1 mkv file. It just muxes the video and converts the audio tracks. So, no problem here.
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Hi,
This is my first job.
Trying to convert flac to dts 1536kbps.
here is the screen:
[img=http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1473/beztytuurk8.th.jpg]
Please help.
Only madshi could know.

But i can say that i had almost the same problem (only the "encode button didn't seem to work" message) with surcode 1.0.29 and eac3to 2.14 on my secondary pc, while it works fine on my primary.
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Except that the command you posted here is not what you actually used (you have typos), eac3to doesn't mux video and audio to 1 mkv file. It just muxes the video and converts the audio tracks. So, no problem here.
Yes I just realized that and was about to delete the post, too late.

eac3to "F:\FEATURE_1.evo"+"F:\FEATURE_2.evo" 2: F:\working\movie.mkv -640

This is what I am trying now.
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Yes I just realized that and was about to delete the post, too late.

eac3to "F:\FEATURE_1.evo"+"F:\FEATURE_2.evo" 2: F:\working\movie.mkv -640

This is what I am trying now.
The -640 switch can not be applied to a mkv. It's a DD bitrate.
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Old 20th January 2008, 16:53   #2717  |  Link
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Hi,
This is my first job.
Trying to convert flac to dts 1536kbps.
here is the screen:
[img=http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1473/beztytuurk8.th.jpg]
Please help.
Not sure why this happens. Maybe Surcode doesn't like those multiple "." chars in the file name? Try renaming the source file to a simpler name. Also try using "eac3to source.flac dest.wavs" and then start Surcode manually to encode the DTS file. Does Surcode work correctly this way? Maybe your Surcode installation is botched up?
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But using raw mode the problem is bigger, if oppening the input can't know these data, how the user can write this command line before open, even before extract, the input file?
I'm not sure if I understand the problem. You can do "eac3to anysource.whatever" and it will list the properties of all audio tracks without extracting them. Ok, it's a bit difficult to predict which bitdepth and endian the data will end up with, I see that. But it's not impossible. These things follow specific patterns/rules. E.g. eac3to's RAW output is always little endian. And bitdepth depends on the source file. Anyway, of course using WAV is easier, cause bitdepth and endianness are part of the header that way. So the user doesn't need to know (guess) these parameters...

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I found a workaround to work with oggenc2. If we put at wav header fields:

RiffLength (offset 5) = 0xFFFFFF24 (instead 0x00000024)
DataLength (offset 41) = 0xFFFFFF00 (instead 0x00000000)

Note: 0xFFFFFF00 is a multiple of any possible BlockAlign for 1 to 8 channels, 8 to 64 bitdepth (avoiding problems with this check)

Only the dynamic % off encoded ogg seems be affected and finish without error at end off data.

NeroAacEnc and Aften with -ignorelength or -readtoeof 1 still work fine.
Sounds good. But what happens if the WAV size is bigger than 2GB or bigger than 4GB? Won't oggenc2 stop at 2GB/4GB then when using WAV input?
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eac3to doesn't mux video and audio to 1 mkv file. It just muxes the video and converts the audio tracks. So, no problem here.
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The -640 switch can not be applied to a mkv. It's a DD bitrate.
Good to have you answer questions like these. Saves me some support work...
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Not sure why this happens. Maybe Surcode doesn't like those multiple "." chars in the file name? Try renaming the source file to a simpler name. Also try using "eac3to source.flac dest.wavs" and then start Surcode manually to encode the DTS file. Does Surcode work correctly this way? Maybe your Surcode installation is botched up?
This can be the cause... I also used " " in the names when the error was introduced.
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