RipBot264 v1.18.3 - Simple and easy to use GUI -> IPOD . PSP . CONSOLES . BLURAY

[jtheripper]

Hi Atak,
I know your releasing a new version soon. I was wondering if it was going to allow to keep a HD audio without conversion for BD-R. Your program is the best and fastest and really only needs that (with newest TSMUXER) to be near perfect for most needs.

[kalle2k3]

Hi Atak,
I know your releasing a new version soon. I was wondering if it was going to allow to keep a HD audio without conversion for BD-R. Your program is the best and fastest and really only needs that (with newest TSMUXER) to be near perfect for most needs.

i fully agree..keep hd audio for bd25 encoding !

[Blackwalker]

Hi Atak,
I know your releasing a new version soon. I was wondering if it was going to allow to keep a HD audio without conversion for BD-R. Your program is the best and fastest and really only needs that (with newest TSMUXER) to be near perfect for most needs.

yea! if we can use also true-hd tracks this program'll be perfect!!!

[spida_singh]

Hi Atak,
I know your releasing a new version soon. I was wondering if it was going to allow to keep a HD audio without conversion for BD-R. Your program is the best and fastest and really only needs that (with newest TSMUXER) to be near perfect for most needs.

I would like this feature too, great as MKV now supports HD audio tracks (via mkvtoolnix), and, i will be buying a Dune prime which reads HD audio tracks within MKV containers. (if you plan on adding this option for both BD output as well as MKV output)

[BlindBandit]

Is this setting good for anime for PS3
--level 4.1 --aud --nal-hrd --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 50000 --filter 3,3 --ref 3 --mixed-refs --bframes 3 --b-adapt 2 --weightb --direct auto --subme 9 --trellis 2 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,i8x8 --8x8dct --me umh --threads auto --thread-input --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim

[dbone1026]

Aside from being able to add the HD audio others have mentioned:

- Ability to add multiple audio tracks
- Ability to mux to mkv/ts/m2ts without encoding. I currently use MakeMKV and/or Clown_BD for my Blu Ray/HD DVDs that I don't want to encode. Since Ripbot264 demuxes the file anyhow, it would be nice to use ripbot264 as a one stop shop.

[Ajax_Undone]

Aside from being able to add the HD audio others have mentioned:

- Ability to add multiple audio tracks
- Ability to mux to mkv/ts/m2ts without encoding. I currently use MakeMKV and/or Clown_BD for my Blu Ray/HD DVDs that I don't want to encode. Since Ripbot264 demuxes the file anyhow, it would be nice to use ripbot264 as a one stop shop.

It kind of defeats the purpose of having a simple encoding app if you start looking for features outside the basic scope of the authors original intention..:cool:

Plus as you mentioned you can use those other tools to get what you want...:p


HD Aud might be an option *Don't Know* but the multiple audio track and demux/remux ideas are things that were not addressed the last time they were mentioned because your taking and trying to get titanic luxury out of a tug boat. It wont happen.

MeGUI is the best titanic multipurpose app on these forums and tries its best to include every tool to help in all encoding circomstances. It might be a better fit you and others.

~DarC

[dbone1026]

It kind of defeats the purpose of having a simple encoding app if you start looking for features outside the basic scope of the authors original intention..:cool:

Plus as you mentioned you can use those other tools to get what you want...:p


HD Aud might be an option *Don't Know* but the multiple audio track and demux/remux ideas are things that were not addressed the last time they were mentioned because your taking and trying to get titanic luxury out of a tug boat. It wont happen.

MeGUI is the best titanic multipurpose app on these forums and tries its best to include every tool to help in all encoding circomstances. It might be a better fit you and others.

~DarC

Well said, just a thought since Ripbot already is demuxing the file into the temp folder. I am just a big fan of Ripbot264, so it is a shame I can't use it all the time, but point taken.

[Blackwalker]

hi Ajax_Undone!
i recently used your "Ripbot" package hat solved some problems i had, so thx for your work
andsorry for my english hehe :)

So you suggest, for the True-HD tracks to use MeGUI?
i never try it...

[buzzqw]

or HDConvertToX, it support multiple audio and multiple subs..

BHH

[mackworth]

Would love see HD audio. Right now I am saving all my blurays and encoding so I can go back and re-do it.

[jindo]

I have 2 problems:

1. If I choose the Denoise option to FILM, Ripbot does not encode the movie. Moreover, I can't choose better audio quality (192kbps or 256 kbps). Why and how?

2. mkvtoolnix released version 2.8.0. I downloaded and extracted 7z file to replace all the files in folder \RipBot264v1.13.3\Tools\mkvtoolnix. Is it ok?

[Atak_Snajpera]

1. Install latest DirectX, 128kbps is enough
2. yes

[jindo]

Thank you for your quick reply. I have just installed Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 with DirectX 10. I think it is the latest version, right?

I want to rip HD music video clips so I need a bit higher audio quality. Is it possible?

[Atak_Snajpera]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9226a611-62fe-4f61-aba1-914185249413&displaylang=en

[jindo]

You gave the link to download DirectX 9.0c. I downloaded and installed but the installation quickly finished. dxdiag shows that the DirectX version in my PC is still DirectX 10.

[Ga1j1n]

Hey Atak,

I've noticed a new strange bit of behaviour, the first time I go to transcode an h264 mp4 from VOB's ripbot will skip the video encoding step after it finishes the audio, mux into an mp4 and announce everything is complete.

However the next time I run the same project (and any others in the queue) it completes perfectly.
Is this common? I have never used it for VOBs before now
v1.13.3

[jtheripper]

It kind of defeats the purpose of having a simple encoding app if you start looking for features outside the basic scope of the authors original intention..:cool:

Plus as you mentioned you can use those other tools to get what you want...:p


HD Aud might be an option *Don't Know* but the multiple audio track and demux/remux ideas are things that were not addressed the last time they were mentioned because your taking and trying to get titanic luxury out of a tug boat. It wont happen.

MeGUI is the best titanic multipurpose app on these forums and tries its best to include every tool to help in all encoding circomstances. It might be a better fit you and others.

~DarC

I agree that people should not expect this program to do everything. But adding the ability to keep the HD audio track really is not a luxary and even though I am not a expert programmer do not think it would be that difficult to add. AS it is megui is overkill, bdrebuilder has many bugs still. Ripbot is the best overall except for the HD audio. The alternatives are to demux the audio, reencode the video and hope you get the right size and then remux to BD. So basically all ripbot would have to add is the calculation part as it already does the rest.

[cxp36]

I'm trying to use v1.13.3. I have a Vista partition and an XP partition. I installed Ripbot264 on both.

On the Vista partition, RB started, indicated I had all the necessary subprograms it requires. AnyDVD HD was running. I put in a Blu-ray disc, RB analyzed, and I selected the largest .mt2 file for processing. Then nothing happened at all. It wouldn't do a thing - extraction never started.

In XP, did all of the above, and extraction was successful, but right after extraction got to 100% Media Player Classic popped up with the error message:

"DirectShowSource: Couldn't open file c:\temp\ripbot264temp\job1\video.mkv An object or name was not found (\Job1\Getinfo.avs, line 2)"

Getinfo.avs says this:
[blank line]
DirectShowSource("C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv",audio=false).ConvertToYV12()
WriteFile("C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Framecount")
WriteFile("C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Framerate")
WriteFile("C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioRate")
WriteFile("C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioChannels")
WriteFile("C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioLength")
WriteFile("C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Width")
WriteFile("C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Height ")
Trim(0,-1)

MKVInfo.txt says this:
Error: The source file 'C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv' could not be opened successfully, or retrieving its size by seeking to the end did not work.

Video - Log.txt says this:
eac3to v3.12
command line: "C:\Program Files\RipBot 264\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "C:\TEMP\52918285_MAD_MAX_2\" 1) 2: "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv" -seekToIFrames 3: "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio.1.ac3" 7: "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\subtitle.1.sup" 1: "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt" -progressnumbers
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 4 audio tracks, 4 subtitle tracks, 1:35:30, 24p /1.001
1: Chapters, 33 chapters
2: VC-1, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: AC3, English, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
4: AC3 Surround, French, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
5: AC3, Spanish, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
6: AC3, English, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
7: Subtitle (PGS), English
8: Subtitle (PGS), English
9: Subtitle (PGS), French
10: Subtitle (PGS), Spanish
Creating file "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt"...
[v02] Extracting video track number 2...
[s07] Extracting subtitle track number 7...
[a03] Extracting audio track number 3...
[a03] Removing AC3 dialog normalization...
[v02] Muxing video to Matroska...
[v02] Getting "Haali Matroska Muxer" instance failed. <ERROR>
Aborted at file position 1048576. <ERROR>

The same thing happened with multiple discs, both when ripping directly from the disc, and also after ripping the disc to my hard drive with AnyDVD HD and pointing RB at that directory.

Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

[hbcsavage]

I have a bit of a noob question i have TS MPEG2 file that is 1920 x 1080i, 29.970 fps, 14 Mbps.When i encoded to avchd using ripbot,playback picture was moving too fast and audio was way out of sync.Can anyone tell me the correct settings for this type of file?Also i had a 720p mkv file that was 10gb but when i encoded it to avchd after ticking the 8150 tab output size was 12.2gb can anyone help with this also.Any info would be great.

[Blackwalker]

or HDConvertToX, it support multiple audio and multiple subs..

BHHso you suggest this program for hd tracks????

[prettyboy85712]

I have a bit of a noob question i have TS MPEG2 file that is 1920 x 1080i, 29.970 fps, 14 Mbps.When i encoded to avchd using ripbot,playback picture was moving too fast and audio was way out of sync.Can anyone tell me the correct settings for this type of file?Also i had a 720p mkv file that was 10gb but when i encoded it to avchd after ticking the 8150 tab output size was 12.2gb can anyone help with this also.Any info would be great.

What were the sources of both files and you need to :script:

[Hyrax]

I'm trying to use v1.13.3. I have a Vista partition and an XP partition.
...

In XP, did all of the above, and extraction was successful, but right after extraction got to 100% Media Player Classic popped up with the error message:

"DirectShowSource: Couldn't open file c:\temp\ripbot264temp\job1\video.mkv An object or name was not found (\Job1\Getinfo.avs, line 2)"

...

The same thing happened with multiple discs, both when ripping directly from the disc, and also after ripping the disc to my hard drive with AnyDVD HD and pointing RB at that directory.

Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

I've no idea what is happening, but can suggest a method I use that helps me. In your XP partition, run a CMD session, change the directory to your Job1 folder, and run the various CMD files RipBot creates. You'll see the actual output from all of the tools and that may give you a clue.

If my instructions are too brief, search this thread for my earlier posts and find where I describe it in more detail.

[hbcsavage]

What were the sources of both files and you need to :script:

HDTV for 1080i file and the 720p is ripped off of bluray disc.

[Inbox7]

Ok I'm stumped. Installed a clean version of Windows 7, AnyDVD, Acronis Backup, Total Media Theater 3, MS Office, and Ripbot + supporting files. Life was good...I was able to rip a MP4 1080p copy of my new Star Trek III bluray. Looked and sounded great.

The next day, I tried the same thing again. Only this time, nothing worked. Ripbot reported "NO CHAPTERS" and "NO AUDIO" under "Select Streams." I tried TSMuxeR thinking I could do it manually but it reported "Unsupported Format."

So I though 'just restore the computer to a point before you installed everything' and start over. I ran Acronis restore and put everything back to the first time I ran Windows 7. I restarted the computer then reinstalled Ripbot + supporting files. This time though, same problem: "NO CHAPTERS" and "NO AUDIO." Tried on other Star Trek Titles and same problem. Did several google searches but couldn't pinpoint the issue.

Adding to the confusion... when I tested some other titles like "Christmas Vacation" and "Phantom of the Opera," Ripbot still worked fine.

Ugg. Really stumped on this one and not sure what/how to troubleshoot next. How could it work one time but not the next on the same title? What could be different? Is it a codec issue? Bluray security problem?

Any advice is appreciated.

System
Windows 7 64Bit
i7 920 Intel
Gigabyte EX58 MB
6 GB Ram
Dual nVidia 9800GTX graphics

[Ga1j1n]

Hey Atak,

I've noticed a new strange bit of behaviour, the first time I go to transcode an h264 mp4 from VOB's ripbot will skip the video encoding step after it finishes the audio, mux into an mp4 and announce everything is complete.

However the next time I run the same project (and any others in the queue) it completes perfectly.
Is this common? I have never used it for VOBs before now
v1.13.3

Further to my earlier post I have noticed the same behaviour for Vob encodes further down the queue although here doesn't appear to be a pattern to the failure.

I've included the log file for one of the job's which has failed numerous times to complete where others do complete the second or so time around.

Odd?

Script used:

# BEGIN

import("D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job9\job9.avs")

# END





Scanning for Audio Stream...

Found Audio Stream

Channels=2, BitsPerSample=16, SampleRate=48000Hz

Writing Header...

Writing Data...

0%
Done!

********************************************************************

* AACPlus v2 Encoder (using Winamp 5.2 enc_aacplus.dll)

* Source timestamp Mon May 15 17:24:26 2006

* Build May 15 2006, 17:24:35

********************************************************************

* NOTE! enc_aacplus.dll must be into executable directory

* get it from Winamp 5.2 plugins directory

* tested on Winamp 5.2 Release Feb 23 2006 Full (Not Pro) version)

********************************************************************

Input file: -

Output file: D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\audio.aac

SampleRate: 48000

ChannelCount: 2

BitsPerSample: 16

Bitrate: 131072

ChannelMode: Stereo

Encoder: AAC-LC

Encoding...
Finalizing...
Done


D:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264v1.13.3\tools\avs2yuv\pipebuf.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264v1.13.3\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job9\job9.avs" -raw - : "C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264v1.13.3\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe" --crf 22 --stats "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job9\job9.stats" --sar 1422:1000 --level 4.0 --aud --nal-hrd --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --filter 0,0 --ref 3 --mixed-refs --bframes 3 --b-adapt 1 --weightb --direct auto --subme 7 --trellis 1 --partitions all --8x8dct --me umh --threads auto --thread-input --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim --fps 25 --frames 61550 --output "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" - 720x576 : 4

x264 [info]: 720x576 @ 25.00 fps

x264 [info]: using SAR=711/500

x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 Cache64

x264 [info]: profile High, level 4.0
D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job9\job9.avs: 720x576, 25 fps, 61550 frames

Output error: wrote only 614118 of 622080 bytes




encoded 6 frames, 193.55 fps, 0.00 kb/s


D:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264v1.13.3\tools\mp4box\mp4box.exe" -tmp "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp" -add "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" -fps 25 -add "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\audio.aac":lang=und -mpeg4 -chap "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job9\chapters.txt" -new "F:\Video\Sample.mp4"

Cannot find H264 start code

Error importing D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264: BitStream Not Compliant
-------------------------

Elapsed Time: 00h:00m:55s

[dbone1026]

Can anyone think of why when encoding an SD-DVD to mkv the quality is hit or miss? As an example I had ripped dodgeball to my PC (keeping the Video_TS structure in tact). I have no problems playing this movie, PQ looks great. I tried encoding it to mkv using the same profile I use for all my otehr movies inlcuidng Blu Rays (4.0 - 2-Pass - 2GB target size) and the PQ comes out a little streaky, especially when there is movement. I have had this same problem with other SD DVD rips, but not all of them. I attached a screenshot, you can see the "streaking" in the "OSQ" title. There are no other problems, but this makes the mkv unwatchable.

I have never had this problem with Blu Ray or HD DVD movies.

[prettyboy85712]

Change to Top Field First under de-interlace.

[Nkotok]

Hi guys. I am making a switch from BD Rebuilder to try Ripbot for blu-ray movie only. I am interested in keeping HD audio though. I hope RibBot will include this option soon.

As for other aplications that come with Ripbot but outdated - TSmuxer and eac3to: can I manually replace the ones with newer version and will Ripbot work? If yes, do I need to replace the whole folders of Tsmuer and eac3to in Ripbot's tools or just the main .exe files? Thanks in advance and sorry if it has been discussed before.

[prettyboy85712]

Yes to replacing the individual apps and no to replacing just the executables.

[Inbox7]

After a lot of trial and error, I discovered that the "No Chapters" "No Audio" issue was a result of the wrong registration for AnyDVD. Somehow I had registered the regular version and not the HD version so other programs were not able to correctly read the streams. In case others have this issue, you may want to double check.

[JohnnyB.Good]

Great tool, works wonderfully. It would be great if you can select your streams and also pick all of your options and set it off to start before demuxing, is that possible? Some movies take upwards to 40 minutes to demux so right now you have to wait until its done before you can click start and leave it off overnight, unless the option is there and I just don't know about it...

[jhmac]

Is there any way to boost audio vol in the psp format?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Normalize = 200%

[jhmac]

Thanks worked great...

[mackworth]

I'm on vacations in Poland till 19th and I have no access to my sources. Also last week I had laser eye correction so I'm not allowed to sit in front of monitor for long time. Good news is that 1.14 is almost finished. I will release new version once I come back to Ireland.

Any news on 1.14, perhaps that changelog of whats coming? :) :)

[Nkotok]

I see the new log for 1.14 No option for keeping hd audio, right?

[buzzqw]

great idea about visual crop! :) very nice

just a question: why using w64 ? because bepipe/nicaudio cannot handle hd audio stream ?


BHH

[Atak_Snajpera]

just a question: why using w64 ? because bepipe/nicaudio cannot handle hd audio stream ?
1) Lossless audio has variable bit-rate. My calculation formula for AVCHD works only with constant bit-rate. Uncompressed audio (wave64) provides always constant bitrate.
2) I don't want to use DirectShowSource (ffdshow) method for decoding audio because it can only complicate things. For example I would have to disable 'Mixer' in FFdshow and probably other filters.

I see the new log for 1.14 No option for keeping hd audio, right?
PCM, TrueHD and EAC3 will be always converted to uncompressed wave64 format (.w64). If you do BD50 -> BD25 backups you can import back .w64 into AVCHD structure. Quality will be exactly the same. Also keep in mind that AVCHD officially supports only AC3,DTS and PCM (wave64 for example).

[Nkotok]

PCM, TrueHD and EAC3 will be always converted to uncompressed wave64 format (.w64). If you do BD50 -> BD25 backups you can import back .w64 into AVCHD structure. Quality will be exactly the same. Also keep in mind that AVCHD officially supports only AC3,DTS and PCM (wave64 for example).

I still am trying to understand why there is no option to just leave hd audio untouched? Is it your personal choice not to include it?
My guess is it does not require much. TS muxer does that.
The audio is stripped off the video at the beginning and then after video reencode is done is muxed back together. So why can it not be unconverted hd audio?

[nwg]

Thanks for the new version.

However, burning to a BD is not really AVCHD so all BD audio formats should work with it. The player will recognise it as a BD not as a AVCHD.

[mackworth]

PCM, TrueHD and EAC3 will be always converted to uncompressed wave64 format (.w64). If you do BD50 -> BD25 backups you can import back .w64 into AVCHD structure. Quality will be exactly the same. Also keep in mind that AVCHD officially supports only AC3,DTS and PCM (wave64 for example).

Just to be clear, version MKVToolnix 2.7 added support for TrueHD, and 2.3 added support for DTS-HD.

If I select audio Stream copy from a blueray ripped with AnyDvD HD into a mkv file, will it copy the DTS-HD/TrueHD audio into the mkv, or will it only be a dts/AC3 file?

[Atak_Snajpera]

I still am trying to understand why there is no option to just leave hd audio untouched? Is it your personal choice not to include it?
My guess is it does not require much. TS muxer does that.
The audio is stripped off the video at the beginning and then after video reencode is done is muxed back together. So why can it not be unconverted hd audio?

I will repeat again.
Lossless audio (TrueHD,DTS-HD bla bla ...) has variable bit-rate. My calculation formula for AVCHD works only with constant bit-rate. Uncompressed audio (wave64) provides always constant bitrate. CONSTAT BITRATE = ACCURATE SIZE Uncompressed audio = so called HD Audio . BD-25 has enough room for video and uncompressed audio.

Just to be clear, version MKVToolnix 2.7 added support for TrueHD, and 2.3 added support for DTS-HD.
ffdshow decodes only DTS-core. Flac has better compression than TrueHD. If you really want I can add option to compress truehd/pcm to flac.

[Nkotok]

I will repeat again.
Lossless audio (TrueHD,DTS-HD bla bla ...) has variable bit-rate. My calculation formula for AVCHD works only with constant bit-rate. Uncompressed audio (wave64) provides always constant bitrate. CONSTAT BITRATE = ACCURATE SIZE Uncompressed audio = so called HD Audio . BD-25 has enough room for video and uncompressed audio.

I see. Thanks for explaining. So when you say:"for BD25 backups you can import back .w64 into AVCHD structure". How do I do that? I mean at what stage: after I get the final blu-ray structure from RipBot. Do I need to remux everything once again?

[Atak_Snajpera]

1) select any .m2ts
2) select trueHD/pcm audio from list
3) after demuxing select avchd and COPY STREAM under audio profile

[DIVX2009]

You add in the future full recode for blu ray whit menu, ...??

[Atak_Snajpera]

no.... If you want menu use multiAVCHD or if you want original menu use BD-RB

[Nkotok]

I will repeat again.
Lossless audio (TrueHD,DTS-HD bla bla ...) has variable bit-rate. My calculation formula for AVCHD works only with constant bit-rate. Uncompressed audio (wave64) provides always constant bitrate. CONSTAT BITRATE = ACCURATE SIZE Uncompressed audio = so called HD Audio . BD-25 has enough room for video and uncompressed audio.

Let me get back to this. I am still thinking about what you said.
So you have a calculation formula for AVCHD that works with constant bit-rate. But in case with HD audio we are not interested in this formula, right? If we want to keep hd audio as is, then all we care about is video reencode. So when we start using RipBot the TSmuxer strips video and audio and then RipBot uses your formula to calculate the output size. So if you choose no audio at all, it will make video only fit 100% on a BD25, right? And that without using AVCHD formula as you chose no audio. So when you choose to keep an HD track, is it possible to make RipBot to follow the same process but just deduct the size of the HD track and adjust the video output size?
If I got it all wrong, I apologize in advance! )

EDIT: I probably got AVCHD and your formula for it all wrong as it does all together: audio and video and can not be divided.

[juGGaKNot]

Yep looks great all around.

Is the x264 autovaq ?

[mackworth]

I will repeat again.
Lossless audio (TrueHD,DTS-HD bla bla ...) has variable bit-rate. My calculation formula for AVCHD works only with constant bit-rate. Uncompressed audio (wave64) provides always constant bitrate. CONSTAT BITRATE = ACCURATE SIZE Uncompressed audio = so called HD Audio . BD-25 has enough room for video and uncompressed audio.


ffdshow decodes only DTS-core. Flac has better compression than TrueHD. If you really want I can add option to compress truehd/pcm to flac.

I am just looking for a way to make as close to original copy of the blueray into a single mkv file. It looks like ffdshow does decode TrueHD, but you are right that it does dts-hd core only.

Is there another tool that you know of that I could manually demux the dts-hd audio out and add it myself?

Flac sounds interesting for TrueHD audio, but I am playing back on a popcorn hour and i am not sure it can handle that combo (mkv and flac).