DTS & TrueHD DirectShow Decoders

[RaymondTH]

Im going through the process of dumping my entire DVD and HDDVD collection to tagged MP4, In order to import the audio files for transcoding to AAC i need directshow decoders.

I have tried installing ffdshow and ac3filter and opening the demuxed files in a directshow player (wmp) with no luck.

I have contacted ArcSoft & interVideo after reading that their media players support DTS & TrueHD but they were unable to confirm that their filters are suitable for this and installing the trial of ArcSoft & full version of interVideo didn't help.

Do i need to repackage these streams into a different container or something to enable reading in directshow players ?

(Ps: i know that their are software applications for this like eac3to but these are not compatible with my aac encoder card which supports directshow input)

[Inspector.Gadget]

demuxed files

This right here is your problem.

Do i need to repackage these streams into a different container or something to enable reading in directshow players ?

Yes. Matroska should work nicely; you will need a DirectShow Matroska splitter installed (I recommend LAV Splitter).

LAV Audio or ffdshow can decode the MLP core of TrueHD files; LAV Audio can also use dtsdecoderdll.dll from the Arcsoft TMT package to perform reference-quality decoding of DTS-HD files.

All-in-all, therefore, I recommend LAVFilters for the splitting and decoding side - and I recommend mkvmerge for muxing your HD audio to Matroska files to allow DirectShow to decode it.

[RaymondTH]

Thats strange i repackaged the video + audio in ts, mkv and m2ts but only the video plays ? Im using server 2008 with the desktop experience feature installed if this makes any difference.

[Inspector.Gadget]

Have you looked at MPC-HC's filters menu during playback or rendered the file(s) with Graphedit to see which audio decoder is in use?

[RaymondTH]

edit after some more testing i managed to import the raw demuxed files not sure why it wouldnt work with the packaged files but it makes my job easier thanks for the help