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Old 29th March 2014, 17:55   #12641  |  Link
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Some other advantages to the way makmkv converts DTS-HDMA:
  • multiple DTS-HDMA track conversion on the fly, in 1 shot (eac3to can only do 1 at a time)
  • thanks to the way it directly reads the dts decoder dll, it also works on Linux (and I guess Mac too, although I haven't used the Mac version)
  • it writes the channel layout in the FLAC tags (as DTS and Dolby do). I'm not sure if this really changes anything as FLAC is supposed to have a standard channel mapping, but it is nice to have nevertheless as we get a FLAC that more resembles the original audio track. Perhaps this is useful for channel number (matrix) down conversion (i.ex 7.1 to 5.1 to 2.0) as found in DTS/Dolby (when the original track used this feature) ?
  • Better compression. Makemkv uses the ffmpeg flac encoder (max compression level 12), whereas eac3to is using libflac (max compression level 8). In my experience, the ffmpeg level 12 results in better compression for ~98% of the tracks. Some rare tracks will however still compress a little better with eac3to's libflac (perhaps ~2% of the tracks I have done or less).

Advantage of eac3to:
  • when a 24 bit DTS-HDMA (or TrueHD) only contains 16 bit, it removes the empty bits to output a smaller file. Makemkv doesn't do this yet (the developer said he'll add this feature in the future). So after converting with Makemkv, I often re-extract the resulting FLAC tracks with eac3to to check this. (but in my experience, although this often happened with movies a few years ago, it rarely is the case today. Most new films almost always contain real 24bit audio on their 24bit tracks; especially DTS-HDMA. This is however still less the case with TrueHD, as 24bit audio is a prerequisite for TrueHD it can't contain 16 bit audio; so, some studios convert the 16 bit to 24bit and this results in a file eac3to will save back in 16 bit).

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i want to use slowdown speeddown and another option?

why dont you add another option?
for example i saw 25300 fps...
i want to change this fps to 23976...
...
is this possible ?
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Old 20th April 2014, 11:23   #12643  |  Link
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why dont you add another option?
for example i saw 25300 fps... i want to change this fps to 23976...

is this possible ?
Nope, with eac3to only standard fps can be used (23.976, 24.000 and 25.000).

You can use SSRC with AviSynth to do the same job, but not all conversions can be done, read http://avisynth.nl/index.php/SSRC
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I'm trying some DTS-ES files to FLAC with eac3to. I'm using Arcsoft and everything. The .dts files have been demuxed properly from the DVD (they show up as ES in MediaInfo), but when I'm using the "convert to flac" command, the files, though 6.1, sound distorted and slowed down.
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I'm trying some DTS-ES files to FLAC with eac3to. I'm using Arcsoft and everything. The .dts files have been demuxed properly from the DVD (they show up as ES in MediaInfo), but when I'm using the "convert to flac" command, the files, though 6.1, sound distorted and slowed down.
Which version of dtsdecoderdll.dll you're using? IIRC, version 1.1.0.8 has problem with decoding DTS(-HD) 6.1.
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When I convert DTS 5.1 to AC3 with eac3to v3.27 (using the ArcSoft DTS decoder v1.1.0.0), the conversion is extremely slow: around 15 minutes to convert an input file of 1:16:00. Is it normal, or should I try to re-install eac3to or the ArcSoft decoder? Is it something I can do to boost the conversion?
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> eac3to.exe Fra.dts Fra.ac3 -640

DTS, 5.1 channels, 1:15:53, 1509kbps, 48kHz
Decoding with ArcSoft DTS Decoder...
Remapping channels...
Encoding AC3 <640kbps> with libAften...
Creating file "Fra.ac3"...
The last DTS frame is incomplete and thus gets skipped.
eac3to processing took 15 minutes, 3 seconds.
Done.
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Old 22nd April 2014, 09:31   #12647  |  Link
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I'd check Task Manager to make sure that the eac3to process is running as fast as it can. Have you tested decoding to WAV, is it as slow?
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Thanks.

Nothing wrong in task manager. eac3to uses only one CPU core. It's a pity, but afaik it's normal.

I just did a conversion to WAV. The process took exactly the same time: 15 minutes, 5 seconds. So, it appears that it's the decoding process that is damn slow. I will try to uninstall the ArcSoft decoder, to see if the default DTS decoder (which one is it?) is faster...
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Thanks.

Nothing wrong in task manager. eac3to uses only one CPU core. It's a pity, but afaik it's normal.

I just did a conversion to WAV. The process took exactly the same time: 15 minutes, 5 seconds. So, it appears that it's the decoding process that is damn slow. I will try to uninstall the ArcSoft decoder, to see if the default DTS decoder (which one is it?) is faster...
eac3to just uses the functions that the decoder/encoder libraries provide (dtsdecoder.dll, libaften, libav, etc.). If these are not multi-threaded, the process won't be multi-threaded. The default DTS decoder is libav and it is a lot faster than Arcsoft's.
Encoding to AC3 with libaften should be multi-threaded (I think).
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Old 22nd April 2014, 10:19   #12650  |  Link
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The ArcSoft DTS decoder is pretty slow - and it's single threaded. eac3to itself tries to process multi-threaded, as far as possible. But if the main decoder is single threaded that's the bottleneck and there's not much eac3to can do about it. No need to uninstall ArcSoft, try "-libav", that will use libav for decoding and process quite a bit faster (but also single threaded). But of course the ArcSoft decoder is using DTS reference code, so it might be "better" than libav. Or maybe not, who knows...

Edit: Cross-post, Groucho2004 was faster...
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And something positive: Sonic is even slower
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Thanks everybody! That confirms that it's Arcsoft the culprit. I'll try with -libav. Thanks for the tip!

I'm not a specialist in audio decoding, but I wonder why ArcSoft is supposed to give better results than Libav. IMO, any decoder should give the same result, regardless of the techniques it uses. It's only when encoding that it is important to use a good encoder. Or am I wrong? What's the benefit of using "DTS reference code"?

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is there a way to force eac3to to encode AC3 with libav instead of aften?
I second this request. It would be great to be able to do this and to be able to set dialnorm and DRC profile. While I know that some people (justifiably) consider dialnorm obsolete, I still like to use sometimes.
 
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Which version of dtsdecoderdll.dll you're using? IIRC, version 1.1.0.8 has problem with decoding DTS(-HD) 6.1.
Thank you! Yeah, I think it was 1.1.0.8. I replaced it with 1.1.0.1 and it worked like a charm!
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I'm not a specialist in audio decoding, but I wonder why ArcSoft is supposed to give better results than Libav. IMO, any decoder should give the same result, regardless of the techniques it uses. It's only when encoding that it is important to use a good encoder. Or am I wrong? What's the benefit of using "DTS reference code"?
The so-called "reference code" is supposed to return a "bit-exact" decompression of lossy DTS. The bit-"exactness" is necessary for the correct decompression of DTS-HD Master Audio.
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The so-called "reference code" is supposed to return a "bit-exact" decompression of lossy DTS. The bit-"exactness" is necessary for the correct decompression of DTS-HD Master Audio.
I see. So, there should be no difference when decoding a "simple" (no HD) DTS 5.1. Right?

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I second this request. It would be great to be able to do this and to be able to set dialnorm and DRC profile. While I know that some people (justifiably) consider dialnorm obsolete, I still like to use sometimes.
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No need to uninstall ArcSoft, try "-libav", that will use libav for decoding and process quite a bit faster (but also single threaded).
And for the dialnorm, try -keepDialnorm
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What are you talking about? The post that you quoted refers to using libav as a decoder, not an encoder.

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And for the dialnorm, try -keepDialnorm
That keeps the dialnorm of an AC-3 track when extracting. It does not give the user the ability to set dialnorm (let alone a DRC profile) when encoding.
 
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Oops, mismatch! Sorry.
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You could always try Vobdnorm: http://www.coises.com/software/vobdnorm.htm

It requires the container to be VOB or MPG, but you can mux and demux from those formats as an extra step.
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Anyone knows how can I decode DTSWAV CD's that contain DTS-ES 6.1 audio? Can I do it somehow with Arcsoft and eac3to? MediaInfo cannot detect the sixth channel, reading it as regular DTS 5.1 (though it reads DTS-ES files from DVD's normally).
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