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9th February 2017, 12:11 | #14121 | Link | |
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1) Extract the UsEac3to.7z in eac3to folder 2) Run UsEac3to.exe and inform 'Settings' -> 'Path to MkvMerge' 3) Load your mkv 4) In 'Track Input -> Output format' extract and/or convert the 2 audio than you want preserve. 5) 'Run and MkvMux' mux your original mkv without audios with the extracted/converted audios
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Thank you for the tip, I'll try it but I would like to process about 1000 movies so I would like to make an automated process
For downmixing to stereo, there is no interest to use Normalize ? I would like to have a correct sound level without putting my TV level to 90% |
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With -downStereo eac3to add center and surround channels to front channels, most the times the volume reach more than 0 dB and eac3to make a automatic Normalize to obtain peaks at 0 dB only.
You can force the Normalize but normally is not necesary, and don't solve the low dialog volume because this only can be corrected with a specific downmix for each movie.
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10th February 2017, 13:50 | #14129 | Link |
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When a program reads the EAC3To output I'd like a sure way to match the track info to the output of other programs (MediaInfo/MKVMerge). Outputting the PIDs and Matroska Track Numbers would be the surest way of achieving that.
(Sorry, I had noticed there was no "feature request option" on the tracker and was going to post here instead, but I looked through the tickets and one of them was a request to use pre-encoded AC-3 to mux with TrueHD instead of making a new one, which is a feature request and was labeled a feature request and a bug as well.) |
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I've tried this command line "eac3to.exe Movie.mkv 1:Audio.m4a -downStereo" but the sound level is low. Is it possible to increase it ? Is it done by applying DRC (with NicAc3Source/NicDtssource) ?
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eac3to does not use AviSynth audio source plugins.
Whether DRC can be applied, may depend on the format of the audio stream in the MKV. 2-pass normalization would always be possible during a complete conversion, but I don't know for sure if eac3to uses a 2-pass method. Probably not. |
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It seems to be the whole volume but mainly dialog volume.
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The whole volume can't be bigger because eac3to detect clip:
[a02] Clipping detected, a 2nd pass will be necessary. <WARNING> and need attenuate it: [a02] Applying -2.24dB gain... Then your movie maybe need other tool to downmix that audio. Try BeHappy.
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You don't need to keep the dialog normalization, it's a flag which actually concerns the level of all channels, not only the center channel. This flag is often used on stereo contents on TV programs, which is rather a nonsense when you think it only concerns the center channel, but it has though something to do with dialogs (when well used) ;
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About Dialogue Normalization (DN) and Dynamic Range Compression (DRC)
(That was explained in the first posts in this thread) Like you can see in the arcticle linked by Music Fan both concepts, used by Dolby Digital (DD) in their encodes, are very ussefull. What is the problem? 1) Only DD uses them, other sources don't have, or don't use, similar concepts (DTS, MP3, CDA, AAC, ...). Normally the same source, encoded with DD, sound at low volume than encoded with other encoder, when played. 2) DN and DRC must be applied at play time, the tools (like eac3to) designed to recode between formats, can't apply DN/DRC when decode DD if we don't want lose quality. If you want preserve DN/DRC you need use a DD certified encoder. Free AC3 encoders don't claim make DD certified streams, only AC3 streams and, by default, don't use DN/DRC. Of course DN/DRC can't be translated to other encoders. Modern players (more powerfull than olds) have "Night mode" to solve the same problem than DRC at play time, and work over any format, not only DD streams. Downmix problems We can't send the same sound volume with 2 speakers than with 6 speakers, that is obvious. The -downStereo parameter try to preserve the balance between channels adding 5 input channels to only 2 (FL'-FR') with this method: FL' = FL + 0.707*FC + SL FR' = FR + 0.707*FC + SR Is normal than adding volume like that produce volume sounds over 0 dB (than produce clip), for that the WARNING and the posterior: Applying -2.24dB gain... To output the max volume peaks without distort. But sometimes the FC (many of dialogs) contribution is not enough to listen clearly the dialogs compared with F and S contributions. There are workarounds to solve this problem, but not with eac3to than try always preserve the best quality. With BeHappy (or BeLight) you can apply DRC, at decoder time, over DD streams (not with other formats). Also you can apply Boost (BeLight) or many other options with AviSynth (BeHappy). But explain them are OT in this thread.
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