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Old 24th December 2007, 10:24   #2201  |  Link
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A little off-topic - something strange about Nero Audio Decoder 2 and Blu-ray Disc Dolby TrueHD audio tracks.

I built the following graph with graphedit:

File source (BD m2ts file) ---> Nero Splitter ---> Nero Audio Decoder 2 ---> Renderer.

The graph plays fine, but when I go to the Nero Audio Decoder 2 settings it reports that the bitrate is 640kbps (so I guess it basically gets the DD core).

Is this a mistake or is it really plays the DD core instead of TrueHD audio ?

Thanks.

Edit: I think the problem is even worse.

I took a look at two BD movies with Dolby TrueHD track using TSRemux and it recognized all of the audio streams, including the TrueHD track.

But in Nero splitter and Haali it only shows 4 audio tracks, where there are five actually, so this makes me think that the problem is the splitter.

Which splitter can recognize Dolby TrueHD tracks ?
I'm not sure, maybe the Sonic one. Anyway, that doesn't really belong into this thread. BTW, the Nero Audio Decoder doesn't like Blu-Ray TrueHD streams (because of the interweaved AC3 frames). So even if you found a splitter which exports TrueHD you can still not easily decode it with Nero. Except by using eac3to, of course.
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Old 24th December 2007, 11:12   #2202  |  Link
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Wow, this tool has evolved! Many thanks Madshi for your work on this. It is very much appreciated.

Since the latest update, is it still worth buying the Nero plugin? I have bought a copy of Nero 7 with the intention of adding the plugin, but it seems as though I needn't bother.
What is your recommendation?

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Old 24th December 2007, 11:18   #2203  |  Link
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You "need" nero/plugin if you care about best quality in e-ac3/ac3 decoding, because nero decoder is a reference one and gives max quality.

If not, the free ffmpeg decoder is almost mature and can be used instead. The choice is up to you, i think.

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Old 24th December 2007, 11:21   #2204  |  Link
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Thanks for the reply. Nero it is then as quality is the most important thing for me.

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Old 24th December 2007, 13:09   #2205  |  Link
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I'm not sure, maybe the Sonic one. Anyway, that doesn't really belong into this thread. BTW, the Nero Audio Decoder doesn't like Blu-Ray TrueHD streams (because of the interweaved AC3 frames). So even if you found a splitter which exports TrueHD you can still not easily decode it with Nero. Except by using eac3to, of course.
OK. I asked that question because I want to avoid from re-encoding the audio.

Is there any quality loss when going from HD Audio (Nero decoder for DDP/TrueHD and Sonic for DTS-HA MA) to FLAC ?

Thanks.
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Old 24th December 2007, 13:38   #2206  |  Link
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OK. I asked that question because I want to avoid from re-encoding the audio.

Is there any quality loss when going from HD Audio (Nero decoder for DDP/TrueHD and Sonic for DTS-HA MA) to FLAC ?

Thanks.
You are a bit confused...
eac3to can do exactly what you need.

Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio are lossless formats. Flac is lossless too. So any conversion between these 3 formats is without quality loss.
Dolby E-AC3, AC3, DTS and DTS-HD High Resolution are lossy formats. Decode any of them and encode to a different format will result in quality loss.

But what eac3to does, is to minimize the quality loss by using proper decoders (freeware and not freeware) and various "modifications" so they output the best audio quality.

It seems that you 've never read the 1st post of this thread. Do it and i am sure your questions will disappear.

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Old 24th December 2007, 15:36   #2207  |  Link
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hello !

I have a "DTS-HD MA 7.1" audio track demux from blue ray dvd.

I want to convent to ac3

I already install nero 7.

but when I use these comaned line

It shows that:

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E:\AUDIO>eac3to 01.dtshd ac3.ac3 -640
DTS Hi-Res, 5.1 channels, 4:49:45, 24 bits, 1676kbit/s, 48khz
Decoding DTS-HD track to raw. Please wait...
Find sync word: 7ffe8001
Find sync extension: 3f
The file size of the raw file doesn't seem to fit.
The expected file size for 16 bit is 9.32 GB.
The expected file size for 24 bit is 13.98 GB.
The real file size is 4.38 GB.

And it was fiald!~~

Waiting for the question! And Marry Cristmas!~~
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Old 24th December 2007, 17:06   #2208  |  Link
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I asked you in the other thread about sonic..
You didn't answer if you have sonic decoders installed and if they are working fine.

Read the 1st post and stop telling that you have nero installed. Nero is not needed in your case.

And you 're waiting for the answer. The question is been made by you.
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Old 24th December 2007, 18:06   #2209  |  Link
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The file size of the raw file doesn't seem to fit.
Pleae update your eac3to version. That error message you've posted is from eac3to v1.x. We're already at v2.x now.
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Old 24th December 2007, 18:14   #2210  |  Link
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eac3to v2.12 released

http://madshi.net/eac3to.zip

thanks to Ron/drmpeg for all his help

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* video resolution, framerate and mode (progressive/interlaced) are displayed
* rewriting timestamps should now always write the correct framerate
* after a full EVO/VOB processing the number of video frames is shown
* EVO 16 bit and 24 bit LPCM demuxing supported now (need samples for 20 bit)
* (E-)AC3 bitstream can be delayed now (similar to delaycut)
* DTS bitstream can be delayed now (similar to delaycut)
* DTS-HD High-Res and Master Audio bitstream can be delayed now
* when demuxing bitstream audio tracks from EVO delay is automatically applied
* some little bugs fixed
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Old 24th December 2007, 18:29   #2211  |  Link
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Pleae update your eac3to version. That error message you've posted is from eac3to v1.x. We're already at v2.x now.
Oh my God!!!

I couldn't imagine that!
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eac3to v2.12 released

http://madshi.net/eac3to.zip

thanks to Ron/drmpeg for all his help

Code:
* video resolution, framerate and mode (progressive/interlaced) are displayed
* rewriting timestamps should now always write the correct framerate
* after a full EVO/VOB processing the number of video frames is shown
* EVO 16 bit and 24 bit LPCM demuxing supported now (need samples for 20 bit)
* (E-)AC3 bitstream can be delayed now (similar to delaycut)
* DTS bitstream can be delayed now (similar to delaycut)
* DTS-HD High-Res and Master Audio bitstream can be delayed now
* when demuxing bitstream audio tracks from EVO delay is automatically applied
* some little bugs fixed
Merry Cristmas and a happy new year to you too Madshi.
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looks great, thanks you two

does that mean that eac3to already delays those eac, dts etc. files now automatically (if needed), as with the all the others e.g. truehd, or do we have to do that manually, when taking it from a HD DVD source for example? (am asking because you wrote 'can do now' and not 'does automatically' or something like that)

edit: I dont know exactly what bitstream audios are, but I guess that are those eac3, dts track I was talking about, correct? so according to your update it can do/does both now, automatically if needed and manually, when we feed it with such a track?
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I dont know exactly what bitstream audios are, but I guess that are those eac3, dts track I was talking about, correct? so according to your update it can do/does both now, automatically if needed and manually, when we feed it with such a track?
You 're right!
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Old 24th December 2007, 20:38   #2215  |  Link
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Been remuxing HD DVDs all dayt today with not a single error using eac3to. Thanks again for this tool. You have done a fantastic job!
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Old 24th December 2007, 23:01   #2216  |  Link
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Merry Cristmas and a happy new year to you too Madshi.
Thanks. Same to you and all other Doom9 hotties!
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does that mean that eac3to already delays those eac, dts etc. files now automatically (if needed), as with the all the others e.g. truehd, or do we have to do that manually, when taking it from a HD DVD source for example?
Basically eac3to can now apply any delay on any audio track. The only exception is if the source is TrueHD and if you want to keep the audio as TrueHD. That's the only situation where eac3to cannot apply a delay. But as soon as you recode TrueHD to anything else, again eac3to can apply a delay.

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am asking because you wrote 'can do now' and not 'does automatically' or something like that
If you feed eac3to EVO files you don't need to care about audio delays, anymore. (Except if you want to keep the TrueHD tracks as external TrueHD files).

Of course that's what I *hope*. It does need to be tested...
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Been remuxing HD DVDs all dayt today with not a single error using eac3to. Thanks again for this tool. You have done a fantastic job!
Thank you. I'm glad it works fine for you. Once you're done with all your HD DVDs, could you please post a movie list here? Also have you had a chance to check whether the audio sync is always correct?
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ive tested it with the pianist and bourne identity so far (only main track though). and both, dts-hd ma (pianist) and eac3 (bourne), were fine (though in both cases no delay had to be applied anyway)
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If you feed eac3to EVO files you don't need to care about audio delays, anymore. (Except if you want to keep the TrueHD tracks as external TrueHD files).

Of course that's what I *hope*. It does need to be tested...
So lets say that audio track 1 (DTS) has a delay or 1001ms. If you demux that audio track, and want to mux it with the video track into an mkv container, you don't need to add the 1001ms delay because eac3to automatically applied it when it demuxed it?
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