Resolved - dts 6.1ch

[doppel4k]

Well.. I've been searching for a day now.. I only got something correct so far..

So I was following a "auto" script, Queue Encoding, to transcode a movie to dvd author it, but that's not the problem.

the script uses besweet, but it kinda choked leaving a mess in the video when playing it, so I extracted the audio using mkextract GUI, it gave me the .dts of it

Now I converted it to .wav which succeeded but somehow the script was telling me to put it .mp2 after it transcode at 384k bitrate(or any other like 192) it gives me a horrible output.. like some kind of slowmotion metallic sound... so I really don't have any idea to convert it correctly.. (P.S i left besweet to do the work like wav to mp2 using toolame dll) tried many attempts.. but failed miserably..

at the end of the process it uses mplex, i don't know if i can just change the way, then again I really don't know how mplex exactly works, if I can put other format that works that'd be great..

sorry if this wasn't allowed, i just ran out of options =/

[Skelsgard]

If you are authoring a DVD, it would be more convenient to use AC3 than MP2, as you can keep it multichannel. If I understand correctly, you need to transcode a DTS-ES 6.1 audio track to author the DVD.
Decode to WAV with BeHappy and encode to AC3 with Aften.
You can keep the DTS track as a 2nd audio track in your DVD, as long as the first track is either MP2 or AC3 (PAL?).

Cheers.

[doppel4k]

well, i'm a bit lost, since I don't know the whole procedure

i have it right now .wav and sounds great, even if i put it .ac3 i don't think it will mux it in one again ... (p.s the scripts separates both audio and video, encodes and transcode both of them to m2v and err mp2? then mux it to mpg though i think you already know that i think..)

I still don't get something, which is why its doing that ugly output that sounds like someone talking in slowmotioni with super boost bass ... .. anyway sorry but can you explain a bit more?

edit: wait.. i think i might have got it... time to try...


Second edit i can't convert wav to ac3... dunno why..., and last update before i go away.. if anyone can tell me all the audio decoders/encoders i need to install.. because i just tried ffmpegGUI with the latest ffmpeg svn and it still wasn't a go go. so i'm guessing wav to ac3 or wav to mp2 is lacking or resources... thanks in advance..

[Skelsgard]

Could you post the script, please?
One of the fastest encoding procedures I´ve used combines Avisynth + HCenc + BeHappy (with NicAudio.dll as your audio source is DTS) + Aften (aften.exe and aftengui.exe) + Muxman. This are all small freeware apps.
With Avisynth, you do processing to get the output ready for MPEG-2 DVD compliant encoding. This output is loaded into HCenc, a freeware and excellente MPEG-2 encoder. That´ll get you the .M2V video.
The audio in this case, DTS, can be loaded in BeHappy for transcoding. You need to have Avisynth + Nicaudio plugin (NicAudio.dll must be in the Avisynth plugins folder in order to be used by Avisynth). Load the DTS into BeHappy with NicDTSSource, disable DSP options (just in case so you won´t mess with them until you know what your doing), and export to WAV (not to AC3 as besweet´s ac3enc.dll is not a very good AC3 encoder). Load the WAV into Aften and encode to AC3.
Start Muxman, load the M2V and AC3 files (DTS too if you like to) and export to DVD multiplexed file.

Cheers.

[doppel4k]

the script i'm using is http://www.playbackhelp.com/doc/guides/queue/

I updated some dlls (lame dll etc etc) in it but its a no go, it does combines avs + quenc or cce and so on..

I don't know why but I can't encode wav to ac3 or even to other format while i was using behappy then tried ffmpegGUI still a no go which was extremely weird.

where can I get BeHappy plugins? somehow it gave me a few errors... and took a real while to even load.

muxman is more effective than mplex (or are they the same?)

[Skelsgard]

Without any disrespect intended to the author of that guide, it looks kinda messy.
It uses in a non clear way a chain of programs that can be use with full control and ease in an independent way instead of as a part of a whole.

Video --> Avisynth --> HCenc --> M2V
DTS --> BeHappy --> WAV --> Aften --> AC3
M2V + AC3 --> MPG with muxman.

I would recommend encoding with Aften to AC3 as it has shown to be a reallly good encoder despite what one would expect from a freeware.

About Behappy plugins, Behappy is a graphical interface for Avisynth. You need to get Avisynth plugins por things to work, not Behappy plugins. To decode DTS, get the nicaudio.dll plugin and put it in your avisynth´s plugins directory.

Muxman supports more input types than mplex.

Cheers.

[doppel4k]

Thanks, I will try to get it done today.. I hope it works.. since somehow yesterday it was acting weird..


alright i got my raw wav, now when I try to convert to ac3

Writing RIFF header to encoder's StdIn
Writing PCM data to encoder's StdIn
Error: System.IO.IOException: The pipe has been ended.

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileStream.WriteCore(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
at System.IO.FileStream.Write(Byte[] array, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
at BeHappy.Encoder.encode()
#### Encoder StdErr ####
error initializing encoder


edit: nevermind that error, updated my aften to yesterday's build and dled aftengui and it's working right now

[doppel4k]

YAY!

Thanks you very much Skelsgard!

Really learned a few things more :), the mpg is done everything is working like a charm, there is something .. "vobsub" that keeps popping out with other subtitles but I hope the dvd player allows me to disable them.. *which it does D:*

[Skelsgard]

Cool, you´re welcome.

Cheers.

[BoNeCrUsHeR]

Thanks, I will try to get it done today.. I hope it works.. since somehow yesterday it was acting weird..


alright i got my raw wav, now when I try to convert to ac3



edit: nevermind that error, updated my aften to yesterday's build and dled aftengui and it's working right now


Error: System.IO.IOException: The pipe has been ended.

Just something I have noticed. Newer versions of AFTEN want the .wav (stdin (-) for BEHAPPY) to come first, and BEHAPPY (current version as of this post), still has the old command line style of .wav coming later in aften line. So I advise to use an older version of aften with BEHAPPY. (It will probably be updated soon I would imagine as this isn't a major/hard bug to fix?

-bC