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Old 13th August 2008, 11:27   #5741  |  Link
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Can TsMuxer mux TrueHD streams in the first place? I think I've read that it doesn't do that (at least not properly).
I think you're right. I did a test...it muxes the track, but the playback seems problematic. But if tsMuxer improves in the future, it might still be a handy option to have in your program, although it would be rarely used offcourse.
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Old 13th August 2008, 19:38   #5742  |  Link
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Encoding is always done with VBR. Default quality is 0.50. You can change the encoding quality e.g. by doing: "eac3to source.whatever dest.m4a -quality=0.35".
I think q=0.5 as default is too big. The encoded files are even bigger than the source for some inputsstreams (at least for AC3-5.1) (table)
To get transparency q=0.35 is enough.

Anyway, no big deal to set the -quality 0.X switch, itīs just a suggestion.

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Edit:
Short question concerning -down2:
When doing AC3-5.1 --> 2CH-WAV manually using besweet, I can specify how channel-mixing have to be done.
For example:
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beSweet.exe -core( -input "audio.ac3" -output "audio.wav" -2ch ) -azid( -n1 -s stereo -c light -L -3db ) -ota( -norm 0.98 )
How are LFE und surroundchannels mixed into L+R when using
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eac3to input.whatever output.m4a -down2
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Old 13th August 2008, 22:13   #5743  |  Link
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How are LFE und surroundchannels mixed into L+R when using
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eac3to input.whatever output.m4a -down2
from eac3to help:

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-down2 downmix multi channel audio to stereo (Dolby Pro Logic II)
-mixlfe mix LFE in (when doing stereo downmixing, see "down2")
so, -down2 do Dolby Pro Logic II downmix, where LFE is not included, you can find the downmix matrix here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Pro_Logic

probably, eac3to uses exactly the same matrix.

with -mixlfe, LFE is included in the downmix too.

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@madshi

i took the DPLII matrix from wikipedia and with mplayer and the "pan" filter i'm doing:

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mplayer -ao pcm:file=20.wav -af pan=2:1:0:0:1:0.707:0.707:0.707:0.707:-0.8165:0.5774:-0.5774:0.8165 51.wav
but the result is different than eac3to. so, is my pan filter command wrong or i'm missing something?

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Old 13th August 2008, 22:22   #5744  |  Link
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Can eac3to take a DTS-HD or MA or DTS-ES discreete and ouput a wav for each channel all 6.1 of them? I ask this because DTS Surround Suite from DTS is the same price as the surcode product and it is able to encode DTS-ES so we wouldn't be stuck with surcodes 5.1 support.
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Old 13th August 2008, 22:32   #5745  |  Link
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Can eac3to take a DTS-HD or MA or DTS-ES discreete and ouput a wav for each channel all 6.1 of them? I ask this because DTS Surround Suite from DTS is the same price as the surcode product and it is able to encode DTS-ES so we wouldn't be stuck with surcodes 5.1 support.
eac3to input.dtshd output.wavs
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Old 14th August 2008, 09:06   #5746  |  Link
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i took the DPLII matrix from wikipedia and with mplayer and the "pan" filter i'm doing:

mplayer -ao pcm:file=20.wav -af pan=2:1:0:0:1:0.707:0.707:0.707:0.707:-0.8165:0.5774:-0.5774:0.8165 51.wav

but the result is different than eac3to. so, is my pan filter command wrong or i'm missing something?
I don't know the exact final matrix used by madshi. Look here.

Your mix is:
Lt' = FL + 0.707xFC + 0.707xLF - 0.8165xBL - 0.5774xBR
Rt' = FR + 0.707xFC + 0.707xLF + 0.5774xBL + 0.8165xBR

The default downmix in BeHappy is:
Lt' = 0.3254xFL + 0.2301xFC + 0.2818xBL + 0.1627xBR
Rt' = 0.3254xFR + 0.2301xFC - 0.1627xBL - 0.2818xBR

Differences:
- The LFE channel is not used by Dolby recommendation, but is optional in BeHappy and eac3to.
- The coefficients are normalized (100%). With your matrix you can obtain overflows until 380.79 %.
- The coefficients in surround channels have a little correction, 0.866 and 0.5 instead 0.8165 and 0.5774 (un-normalized values). Is based in a old Besweet-Azid discussion and was assumed to produce a better channel separation. Verified by my test using PowerDVD dpl2 soft decoder.
- The signs in surround channels are inverted. With original signs the BL channel is inverted when use PowerDVD dpl2 soft decoder.

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Old 14th August 2008, 09:57   #5747  |  Link
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tebasuna51, thank you very much for providing excellent information as always!

i read you post about downmixing with AviSynth, but AFAIU it is not on-the-fly during playback. are there other plugins like the mplayer pan filter that are capable to do downmixing on-the-fly? is there a place where i can find more good downmix matrices for things like 5.1->2.0, 6.1->2.0, 7.1->2.0, 7.1->5.1, etc?

it would be very cool if there is DirectShow filter that accept any downmix matrix as settings and output the the downmixed audio.

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it would be very cool if there is DirectShow filter that accept any downmix matrix as settings and output the the downmixed audio.
You can do that in ffdshow audio decoder, I think.
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i read you post about downmixing with AviSynth, but AFAIU it is not on-the-fly during playback. are there other plugins like the mplayer pan filter that are capable to do downmixing on-the-fly? is there a place where i can find more good downmix matrices for things like 5.1->2.0, 6.1->2.0, 7.1->2.0, 7.1->5.1, etc?

it would be very cool if there is DirectShow filter that accept any downmix matrix as settings and output the the downmixed audio.
I think is out of scope of this thread. If you want more info about downmix you can open a new thread.

- .avs files can be played by mpc and others players.
- with DS ffdshow and ac3Filter you can define any matrix.
- you can use these coeficients with mplayer (some versions have problems with multichannel remapping)
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tebasuna51, thank you again! when i've done more research and have more questions, maybe i will open separate thread for the subject.

deathlord, thank you for the hint!
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eac3to crashes with the following file.

ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/samples/HDTV/Hellboy.ts
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It does not crash on my PC.
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It does not crash on my PC.
Are you using Nero 7 to decode? I don't have that installed on my laptop so I'm wondering if it is a crash in libav.
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Old 15th August 2008, 15:19   #5754  |  Link
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@Madshi
I converted M2TS video file to MKV video file with Eac3to as backup. But now i want to convert it back to M2TS container. I tried to extract MKV file, it gave me Video File in AVI Container. Can you tell me how to further extract Original VC-1 file from AVI container?

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Old 15th August 2008, 16:38   #5755  |  Link
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^^^^

Just do MKV -> M2TS via tsMuxeR
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Old 15th August 2008, 17:20   #5756  |  Link
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Got it bro, thanks very much. I was banging my head in google for AVI demuxer.
Thanks for saving my time & my head

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Hi guys,

What kind of option should i put to command line to force eac3to use another encoder than the default?

Thanks!
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What kind of option should i put to command line to force eac3to use another encoder than the default?

Thanks!
See the first post.

Code:
-sonic/nero/...   force the use of a specific decoder (not recommended)
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Sorry but i think i told "encoder" not "decoder"

Or do you mean i can use the same option for encoder as well?
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Sorry but i think i told "encoder" not "decoder"

Or do you mean i can use the same option for encoder as well?
Sorry my fault. Don't think you are able to specify another encoder.
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