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Old 25th March 2009, 18:31   #8601  |  Link
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No post in this thread from madshi for a while. Does this mean he sold the rights for eac3to to SlySoft for their new HD transcoding app?
 
Old 25th March 2009, 19:29   #8602  |  Link
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I've discovered (well, I've been told about, technically) an issue with eac3to recognizing original, unused DTS-HD files. By unused, I mean the files created by the DTS-HD Master Audio Suite (the software that the studios use to actually create the DTS-HD MA audio). The DTS software creates files with an extra 140 bytes of header information at the beginning of the files. This information is stripped off when the DTS is used on a final disc, so if you rip DTS off a Blu-Ray disc, this data is not there. Thus, eac3to doesn't recognize a DTS file with this information... The header isn't vague, the first 8 characters are DTSHDHDR. It would be great if the software could be updated to recognize DTS files with this header information still attached.

I encoded a 7.1 test stream for someone else on the forum, and a member discovered the problem when trying to use eac3to on the file. The files are here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mz71xx

There's a DTS-HD High Resolution stream (I don't see this used very often, basically DTS that can go up to a 3mb bitrate), and a DTS-HD Master Audio stream included.

Thanks, Rik
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Old 25th March 2009, 19:34   #8603  |  Link
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Hi,

just one question.

How i tell eac3to to use the maximum compression for a .flac destination encoding?

If it is not possible can a swith be added to do the thing?

Thank you very much
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Old 25th March 2009, 19:51   #8604  |  Link
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How i tell eac3to to use the maximum compression for a .flac destination encoding?
It already does.
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Old 25th March 2009, 20:30   #8605  |  Link
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No, because i've recompressed the flac from eac3to, with SoundOut avisynth plugin and the result is 500meg smaller, so i think the default is to use "medium" compression.
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Old 25th March 2009, 20:38   #8606  |  Link
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Quick question about eac3to and audio delay in Matroska files: The other day I ripped a DVD and then muxed it directly to Matroska without re-encoding, planning to encode it later. I checked the audio delay with DGIndex before muxing and applied the proper delay at mux. eac3to, when run without any options against the Matroska file, reports the audio delay as -301 ms. This sounds like too much of a delay, but off hand I can't remember what the audio delay reported by DGIndex was. Does anyone know how accurate eac3to's parsing of matroska delay values is?

Eduit: Mkvinfo -v shows that the audio starts 16ms after the video, which jogs my memory and I think was the delay I applied at muxing. What's going on here?

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Old 25th March 2009, 20:48   #8607  |  Link
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No, because i've recompressed the flac from eac3to, with SoundOut avisynth plugin and the result is 500meg smaller, so i think the default is to use "medium" compression.
perhaps the source was a 24-bit file and that plugin only compressed it to 16-bit?
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Old 25th March 2009, 20:49   #8608  |  Link
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perhaps the source was a 24-bit file and that plugin only compressed it to 16-bit?
No, checked. 24bit in, 24 bit out.
81% from eac3to, 68% from SoundOut.
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Old 25th March 2009, 23:48   #8609  |  Link
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How do I disable the 2nd pass? I have a file with discontinuities. Eac3to doesn't care and finishes processing. The result has minor picture and audio dropouts I can easily live with. However, eac3to erroneously sees an audio delay and starts a second pass. Afterwards the audio is no longer in sync from the first discon on. I am pretty sure this would not happen without the second pass. But that is automatically executed and I don't know how to prevent that.
Unfortunately the newest version without automatic 2nd pass (2.80) stops at the discons (even with -ignorediscon switch).
I would also like a switch that suppressed the second pass.
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Old 26th March 2009, 00:08   #8610  |  Link
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No, because i've recompressed the flac from eac3to, with SoundOut avisynth plugin and the result is 500meg smaller, so i think the default is to use "medium" compression.
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Old 26th March 2009, 01:26   #8611  |  Link
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Got an issue with Terminator, the SaraConnor Chronicles. eac3to failed to detect an entire episode. There are three on there and eac3to only found 2. I managed to demux the m2ts file for the episode, but it lacked a chapter file.

PLAYLIST and CLIPINF folder can be found here.

Thanks madshi for all your work.
Disk 2 is even worse. It doesn't list any independent episodes.

CLIPINF and PLAYLIST files for disk 2 here
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Old 26th March 2009, 07:49   #8612  |  Link
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The sense of that post is the opposite. Madshi doesn't want to add "less" compression, 'cause "speed is good enough".

In this sense i think Madshi didn't use a "Ultra" level to do a speed/compression balancing.

But in my case (and i think in other cases too at this point), 500 megs smaller are more than a weight difference.
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Old 26th March 2009, 09:44   #8613  |  Link
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Hi, simple question:

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DTS Master Audio, 5.1 channels, 16 bits, 48khz
(core: DTS, 5.1 channels, 16 bits, 1509kbps, 48khz)
Decoding with ArcSoft DTS Decoder...
does it mean that source file is decoded as lossless or only as lossy core?
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Old 26th March 2009, 10:29   #8614  |  Link
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...does it mean that source file is decoded as lossless or only as lossy core?
ArcSoft decode DTS-MA as lossless.

With -libav only the core.
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The sense of that post is the opposite. Madshi doesn't want to add "less" compression, 'cause "speed is good enough".

In this sense i think Madshi didn't use a "Ultra" level to do a speed/compression balancing.

But in my case (and i think in other cases too at this point), 500 megs smaller are more than a weight difference.
Madshi's post suggests he's using flac's --best compression level.

If you de-compress the flac files produced by eac3to and SoundOut are the resulting wav files identical?
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Old 26th March 2009, 14:34   #8616  |  Link
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The sense of that post is the opposite. Madshi doesn't want to add "less" compression, 'cause "speed is good enough".
but isn't "max compression" max compression already?
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Old 26th March 2009, 15:17   #8617  |  Link
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ArcSoft decode DTS-MA as lossless.

With -libav only the core.
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Old 26th March 2009, 15:33   #8618  |  Link
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Any update on being able to extract forced subtitles only?

I would love to see this feature added it would make things so much easier.

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Old 26th March 2009, 18:58   #8619  |  Link
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No, because i've recompressed the flac from eac3to, with SoundOut avisynth plugin and the result is 500meg smaller, so i think the default is to use "medium" compression.
I just ran two test encodes of a small 6 channel wav file. The first encoded to flac using eac3to and the second using the flac CLI encoder with the --best switch.

The resulting flac files were (very nearly) the same size. Perhaps there's a problem with SoundOut? It's not truncating the output file is it? I know that the flac CLI encoder can't cope with large files.

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Old 26th March 2009, 19:38   #8620  |  Link
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@Madshi
I've discovered (well, I've been told about, technically) an issue with eac3to recognizing original, unused DTS-HD files. By unused, I mean the files created by the DTS-HD Master Audio Suite (the software that the studios use to actually create the DTS-HD MA audio). The DTS software creates files with an extra 140 bytes of header information at the beginning of the files. This information is stripped off when the DTS is used on a final disc, so if you rip DTS off a Blu-Ray disc, this data is not there. Thus, eac3to doesn't recognize a DTS file with this information... The header isn't vague, the first 8 characters are DTSHDHDR. It would be great if the software could be updated to recognize DTS files with this header information still attached.

I encoded a 7.1 test stream for someone else on the forum, and a member discovered the problem when trying to use eac3to on the file. The files are here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mz71xx

There's a DTS-HD High Resolution stream (I don't see this used very often, basically DTS that can go up to a 3mb bitrate), and a DTS-HD Master Audio stream included.
Follow-up to this:

There's more to this than I thought. Apparently the header info is different sized depending on the type of DTS file you've encoded... The header includes the 8 bytes following the string STRMDATA, that seems to be consistent with all the files I've encoded so far.

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