DTS track seems to big

[AgeOfPanic]

Last week I encoded a movie with the original DTS sound. The movie was about 1 hour and 45 minutes. The DTS track took about 600 MB. Now I have a movie of about 1 hour and 25 minutes and the DTS track is almost 1 GB. Further more Smartripper said that the track was only 5 channel and the other movie had six channels.
How is this possible. I thought that DTS was a fixed bitrate, so a shorter movie should have a smaller DTS track.

[DIggedy]

DTS has 2 different bitrates. 754kbps and 1509kbps, which are commonly refered to as 'half-rate' and 'full-rate' respectively. It sounds like the first title you did was half-rate and the one youre working on now is full-rate. What is the movie and from which region btw?
Full rate DTS dvds are very much a rarity these days, which is a shame because most of them sound fantastic.

[AgeOfPanic]

The movie is Taxi 2 and it is a region 2 DVD. Does anybody know the bitrate of this movie?

[daphy]

:o

split the file in wavs and find it out (f.e. with cool edit)

second method could be gspot??? :rolleyes:


CYA Daphy

[AgeOfPanic]

I have checked the bitrate with Gspot and it does seem to be a 1510 kb/s DTS stream. Thanks for your help.

[AgeOfPanic]

Another question about DTS. The track is often identified as having only 5 channels. I thought it should be 6 (5.1). The AC3-track is often identified as having 6 channels. Is this normal?

[daphy]

yep - :rolleyes:

found this often, too.