DTS to WMA

[jriker1]

I have a 5.1 DTS file that I want to covert to WMA that I want to join with a WMV-HD file. Any suggestions how to convert this file? I can't seem to find a good way to get it into WMA 5.1 format.

Thanks.

JR

[Blue_MiSfit]

You should be able to use eac3to to decode the DTS into an uncompressed PCM format (i.e. 6 mono WAVs or an interleaved 5.1ch WAV), and then feed this to a microsoft encoder of some sort.

Expression Encoder 4 comes to mind, which is a very nice tool if you're involved in the Windows Media world at all. It's also FREE :)

The Pro version does more stuff, but the free version should do all you need. I'm downloading it now and trying this out, just to satisfy my own raging curiosity!

Derek

[Blue_MiSfit]

Verified. This is a darned easy workflow, too!

Now, when you mean WMV-HD, do you literally mean the old (several years before BluRay) WMV-HD standard which used early VC-1 encoding, Main Profile @ High Level?

OR... do you just mean a WMV file that contains HD video?

I'm no expert when it comes to muxing WMV files. In fact, outside of doing a whole encode project in Microsoft Expression Encoder or something like Rhozet Carbon Coder I wouldn't know how to mux a WMV :devil:

I remember zambelli wrote some tools for this kind of thing, maybe some of Ben Waggoner's posts around here would be helpful too. Good luck!!

Derek

[jriker1]

Thanks for the info. I own Expression Pro Encoder however didn't see a way to use 6 separate wav files. Ended up so far based on your comments using eac3to and creating a 5 channel AC3 file and then converted it to a WMA file in Expression. Now how to I take my WMV and WMA files and merge them together? Is that supposed to be an ASF file? And do so without recoding again of course.

Also in answer to your question, yes it's the several years old WMV-HD format. I have a streaming serve that if it knows the device supports it will push the video as is to it. I am using an XBOX and it can't play MKV and MP4 support is questionable especially when the audio in it is unsupported and plus it can't play anything over 4GB of course except for MS WMV-HD format so decided it was a good way to go.

Let me know.

Thanks.

JR

[Inspector.Gadget]

ASFBin or ASFBinGUI can mux streams in ASF containers to a new ASF. Expression Encoder may also have a "Copy" action for video streams as it does (or at one point did) for audio.

[poisondeathray]

windows media stream editor can mux it too , comes with wme

[jriker1]

Thanks I'll check it out assuming I can find it anymore. Everything points back to Expression 4 as the replacement but doesn't seem to be a full one. Should the final output be a WMV file or a ASF file if I have a WMV and a WMA file I want to merge?

JR

Edit: Found WME however when I try to add a WMV and WMA to the output it tells me they must be the same content type. Doesn't seem to be able to merge the two.

[poisondeathray]

either is fine, you can rename the extension if you want

you can use avs input into wmnicenc to encode audio and/or video as well (you can use nicdtssource() , or ffaudiosoruce() )

this thread deals with xbox wmv muxing issues, and various techniques you can use, but start a few pages in
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119785

[jriker1]

either is fine, you can rename the extension if you want

you can use avs input into wmnicenc to encode audio and/or video as well (you can use nicdtssource() , or ffaudiosoruce() )

this thread deals with xbox wmv muxing issues, and various techniques you can use, but start a few pages in
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119785

Figured out Media 9 Stream Editor. Had to check off the video level and audio level when adding not the audience level. Hopefully it will work. Taking a heck of a long time for if it's just joining them together. Assuming that's what it's doing. CPU is dead, hard drive is semi busy. Hope it's not encoding.

JR

[Blue_MiSfit]

Make sure you go from DTS to WAV, not DTS to AC3.

eac3to input.dts output.wav

this will give you an interleaved 5.1ch WAV, not 6 mono WAVs.

Derek