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Old 4th October 2009, 09:12   #9361  |  Link
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Hello,

why does eac3to don't maintain the tone pitch when in use the slowdown cmd?

The voices always sounds muffled!

I use Windows XP x64 - current eac3to version and libAv.
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Old 4th October 2009, 09:39   #9362  |  Link
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eac3to is unable to process the 5.0 AC3 track from the Häxan Criterion Collection.

Here's the log:
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eac3to v3.16
command line: eac3to.exe "f:haxan.ac3" f:\temp\captures\haxan_1922_audio2.m4a -quality=0.40 -normalize -down2
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AC3, 5.0 channels, 0:00:50, 384kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
Removing AC3 dialog normalization...
Decoding with DirectShow (Nero Audio Decoder 2)...
DirectShow reports 5.0 channels, 24 bits, 48khz
Writing WAV...
Creating file "f:\temp\captures\haxan_1922_audio2.m4a.pass1.wav"...
Starting 2nd pass...
Reading WAV...
Reducing depth from 64 to 32 bits...
Encoding AAC <0.40> with NeroAacEnc...
The Nero AAC encoder aborted processing.  <ERROR>
[NeroAacEnc] ERROR: could not open AAC encoder
Aborted at file position 262144.  <ERROR>
Encoding the other two tracks (2.0) works just fine.

Here's a sample: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9...db6fb9a8902bda
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eac3to is unable to process the 5.0 AC3 track from the Häxan Criterion Collection.
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Here's a sample: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9...db6fb9a8902bda
You don't need samples, is NeroAacEnc the culprit, can't encode 5.0 audio, must be 5.1
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But why doesn't the down2 parameter work?
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why does eac3to don't maintain the tone pitch when in use the slowdown cmd?
The method used don't maintain the pitch.

And madshi say is the correct method to convert the audio previously speedup to put in PAL DVD: recover the original pitch.

But if your audio is recorded with a PAL camera and want slowdown preserving the pitch you need use other method like TimeStretch(tempo=100.1/0.96) in AviSynth
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But why doesn't the down2 parameter work?
Sorry, I don't see your -down2 parameter.
Yes this is a eac3to problem, only downmix 5.1 audio.

If you have AviSynth you can try:
NicAc3Source("f:haxan.ac3", Channels=2)

the downmix is Dolby ProLogic, or other downmix options,
with SoundOut, Wavi, BeHappy or MeGUI methods
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Old 5th October 2009, 20:51   #9367  |  Link
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eac3to with Arcsoft TMT 3

I am using the latest TotalMedia Theater (v3) platinum on win7 x64, and eac3to continously sais that the Arcsoft decoder is not installed.

Can anyone help me to solve this problem?

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I notice that in some movies, like Kill Bill 1&2, forced subtitles are not detected. There is one big English subtitle track with all subs, and another much smaller track with just the forced subs, but eac3to does not detect it as forced (nor does any other tool like BDSupToSub). Yet standalone Blu-Ray players somehow figure this out... how?
Nobody knows the answer to this? There must be some flag in the BD structure somewhere that marks these files as forced that eac3to isn't checking.
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I have the Criterion Kagemusha and it has 4 channel DTS MA. eac3to is unable to cope with it. It spits out various errors. I'm using Arcsoft. Any ideas? I can upload a sample if someone would be so kind as to describe in detail how to cut it (I'm a movie watching enthusiast, bit a programmer so I'm not familiar with the use of hex editors).
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With a common tool you can extract the first MB:

VirtualDub -> Tools -> Hex Editor -> File (open the DTS file) -> Edit -> Extract segment -> 0 - 1000000 -> OK
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With a common tool you can extract the first MB:

VirtualDub -> Tools -> Hex Editor -> File (open the DTS file) -> Edit -> Extract segment -> 0 - 1000000 -> OK
Thanks tebasuna.

Here's a sample: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c...5cbde7375ca78c

I hope someone can make heads or tails of it.

It's a sample of the entire m2ts BTW. If I need to upload just the DTS MA file I can do that too.
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Just tried your sample and it seems ok here. I decoded the DTS-MA to wav and all seems correct - 4 channels, correct channel mask.

What errors are you getting?
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Just tried your sample and it seems ok here. I decoded the DTS-MA to wav and all seems correct - 4 channels, correct channel mask.

What errors are you getting?
I cam decode to WAV also. Or at least I got eac3to to produce a WAV. I can't encode to AC3. Is AC3 only 2 and 6 channels? What other format can I use then?
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You need use the external encoder Aften with the sintax, if the audio track is the second:
eac3to input.m2ts 2: stdout.wav | Aften -readtoeof 1 - output.ac3
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You need use the external encoder Aften with the sintax, if the audio track is the second:
eac3to input.m2ts 2: stdout.wav | Aften -readtoeof 1 - output.ac3
Thanks tebasuna. But I can't seem to get it to work.

Code:
G:\the hive\software\video tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe F:\KAGEMUSHA 2: stdout.wav "C:\Program Files (x86)\megui\tools\aften\Aften.exe" -readtoeof 1 - F:\KAGEMUSHA\test.ac3
Nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
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You haven't copied tebasuna51's command exactly (missing pipe), and you need quotes around paths / filenames containing spaces. Try...

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"G:\the hive\software\video tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" F:\KAGEMUSHA 2: stdout.wav | "C:\Program Files (x86)\megui\tools\aften\Aften.exe" -readtoeof 1 - F:\KAGEMUSHA\test.ac3
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OK. Making some progress here. Now I get this:

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"G:\the hive\software\video tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" F:\KAGEMUSH
A 2: stdout.wav | "C:\Program Files (x86)\megui\tools\aften\Aften.exe" -readtoeo
f 1 - F:\KAGEMUSHA\test.ac3

Aften: A/52 audio encoder
Version SVN
(c) 2006-2007 Justin Ruggles, Prakash Punnoor, et al.

input format: Raw PCM Signed 16-bit little-endian 48000 Hz mono
output format: 48000 Hz mono (1/0)

SIMD usage: MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3
Threads: 4

progress: 100% | q: 532.0 | bw: 38.0 | bitrate: 96.0 kbps
And nothing else. That all happened right away. It immediately said progress 100%. So I'm assuming there's an error, or I did something wrong. The resulting ac3 is 384 bytes. Nothing is happening for over 20 minutes now. Are there some additional Aften parameters or something?

Thanks for all of the help tebasuna and TinTime.
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OK. Making some progress here. Now I get this:...

And nothing else....
But your input file is a folder: F:\KAGEMUSHA
and you say me is a m2ts.
If you have a complete BD structure please put the log of this command line:

"G:\the hive\software\video tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" F:\KAGEMUSHA
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Right, right. Stupid error.

Code:
"G:\the hive\software\video tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" F:\KAGEMUSH
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1) 00001.mpls, 00257.m2ts, 3:00:37
   - Chapters, 31 chapters
   - h264/AVC, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
   - AC3, English, stereo, 48khz
   - DTS Master Audio, Japanese, multi-channel, 48khz

2) 00752.mpls, 00260.m2ts, 0:43:45
   - Chapters, 20 chapters
   - h264/AVC, 1080i60 /1.001 (16:9)
   - AC3, Japanese, stereo, 48khz

3) 00751.mpls, 00259.m2ts, 0:41:01
   - Chapters, 7 chapters
   - h264/AVC, 1080i60 /1.001 (16:9)
   - AC3, Japanese, stereo, 48khz

4) 00795.mpls, 00267.m2ts, 0:19:21
   - h264/AVC, 1080i60 /1.001 (16:9)
   - AC3, English, mono, 48khz
It's 00001.mpls

EDIT:
I think I got it now.

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Your DTS-MA is the track 2?
Please run this before:

"G:\the hive\software\video tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" F:\KAGEMUSHA 1)
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