lariva
6th June 2008, 16:07
I have looked around and could not find any useful data - hopefully someone might have a suggestion.
I have quite a few DD (AC3) and DTS audio files, mostly extracted for DVDs.
What I was looking for is a way to include some metadata along with the files (i.e. mp3 IDv3 tagging and alike). The issue is that AC3 / DTS files have no support for metadata, MP4 cant take ether one (not by spec at least). AVI, i'm trying to stay away from. OGM/OGG - seems like there are (were) some unicode issues in general and the development is a tad slow.
That leaves MKV/MKA which seem to fit the bill, but - there seems to be no support in players for tags (some say that Haali works half way). Also, I could not get the xml tags to work. Mkvmerge says the file has been integrated, mkvextract shows none.
Does anyone have any suggestions on the subject?
In short - my goal is:
1. Avoid re-encode, the format is already lossy and unless I'll use flac the quality will be lost. Also flac at max compression comes up with ~1900 Kbps whereas AC3 6ch is using 448 ...
2. Avoid re-encode as I prefer to use SPDIF to my avr 5800 receiver when at home
3. Have the metadata available - I need a library management , indexing tool that would let me handle 100 gigs worth of music. Obviously I cant even look for a library option until i figure out the format that I could use.
Please help...
I have quite a few DD (AC3) and DTS audio files, mostly extracted for DVDs.
What I was looking for is a way to include some metadata along with the files (i.e. mp3 IDv3 tagging and alike). The issue is that AC3 / DTS files have no support for metadata, MP4 cant take ether one (not by spec at least). AVI, i'm trying to stay away from. OGM/OGG - seems like there are (were) some unicode issues in general and the development is a tad slow.
That leaves MKV/MKA which seem to fit the bill, but - there seems to be no support in players for tags (some say that Haali works half way). Also, I could not get the xml tags to work. Mkvmerge says the file has been integrated, mkvextract shows none.
Does anyone have any suggestions on the subject?
In short - my goal is:
1. Avoid re-encode, the format is already lossy and unless I'll use flac the quality will be lost. Also flac at max compression comes up with ~1900 Kbps whereas AC3 6ch is using 448 ...
2. Avoid re-encode as I prefer to use SPDIF to my avr 5800 receiver when at home
3. Have the metadata available - I need a library management , indexing tool that would let me handle 100 gigs worth of music. Obviously I cant even look for a library option until i figure out the format that I could use.
Please help...