tsMuxer Open Source

[gonca]

Thank you.
It works fine and will simplify my workflow on some of my media files

[MrVideo]

Works great in my Sony UBP-X800M2 bitstreamed to my Denon AVR-X8500H.

[shroomM]

Originally Posted by Kuler087

But wouldn't that make the whole process a lot longer?
I think I would prefer an empty core like the Atmos E-AC3 streaming services use. It works perfectly fine on my bluray player

+1

It would be a very nice option - if plain TrueHD is detected, add an option to generate THD+AC3 with empty core all within tsMuxer.

[gonca]

Originally Posted by shroomM

+1

It would be a very nice option - if plain TrueHD is detected, add an option to generate THD+AC3 with empty core all within tsMuxer.

See post 1176

[shroomM]

Originally Posted by gonca

See post 1176

Oh, yeah, I know and use that already.

What I'm saying is it would be more convenient to have this within tsMuxer.

For me, eac3to takes quite some time to transcode TrueHD to AC3 for core. I assume it'd be faster to have tsMuxer generate empty frames.

In my case, I'm playing my media on an Oppo clone which passes audio to my AVR which supports TrueHD. So I'm ok with an empty core. Other users might have different use cases.

[Kuler087]

@shroomM exactly!

plus I don't see the point of encoding a 32kbps 2.0 core, might as well encode it at 640kbps 5.1 instead.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally Posted by Kuler087

...plus I don't see the point of encoding a 32kbps 2.0 core, might as well encode it at 640kbps 5.1 instead.

While this would be preferable, it would however require the addition of an audio 'encoder' to generate the Dolby Digital core!

On the plus side (if I understand correctly), it sounds like it might be possible to create an 'Blu-ray spec compliant' empty/fake (32kbps 2-channel) core using TSmuxer alone

[Kuler087]

Originally Posted by SeeMoreDigital

empty/fake (32kbps 2-channel) core using TSmuxer alone

How do you make thd+ac3 with a fake 32kbps core without re-encoding?
Last time I checked, encoding at 640 or 32kbps in eac3to takes the same time.

So if making an empty core is possible right now, i'd like to know how because I'm wasting a LOT of time re-encoding a 640 ac3 to my trueHD track from mkv files.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally Posted by Kuler087

...So if making an empty core is possible right now, i'd like to know how because I'm wasting a LOT of time re-encoding a 640 ac3 to my trueHD track from mkv files.

From what I understand... This is what's currently being looked into/investigated... It's not an option yet!

[Kuler087]

awesome, can't wait!!
Hopefully, making a single-track dual-layer TS/m2ts from DV bluray disc is next

[a5180007]

Originally Posted by Kuler087

How do you make thd+ac3 with a fake 32kbps core without re-encoding?
Last time I checked, encoding at 640 or 32kbps in eac3to takes the same time.

There would be no encoding involved -only interleaving the same 128-byte silent/blank AC3 frame before the TrueHD frames.

[Kuler087]

Originally Posted by a5180007

There would be no encoding involved -only interleaving the same 128-byte silent/blank AC3 frame before the TrueHD frames.

Good to hear, thank you for the hard work.

[von Suppé]

Originally Posted by Kuler087

awesome, can't wait!!
Hopefully, making a single-track dual-layer TS/m2ts from DV bluray disc is next

What would be the benefit compared to a dual-track dual-layer m2ts as it is now?

[Kuler087]

Originally Posted by von Suppé

What would be the benefit compared to a dual-track dual-layer m2ts as it is now?

dual track dual layer TS/m2ts files have a nasty bug on the oppo and sony x700. You can't play two files in a row otherwise the player is locked with a green-purple screen.

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...32#post1931032

I would keep both options available though because some ST-DL files won't play at all.


EDIT:. it turns out the x800m2 is not affected by this bug, it might be an x700/oppo bug after all because I read they both have the same SOC

[gonca]

Originally Posted by a5180007

There would be no encoding involved -only interleaving the same 128-byte silent/blank AC3 frame before the TrueHD frames.

Would it be possible to apply this solution to the no core E-AC3 tracks in order to create a "core" and make it compliant?

[a5180007]

Originally Posted by gonca

Would it be possible to apply this solution to the no core E-AC3 tracks in order to create a "core" and make it compliant?

Edit: IMO it cannot be done with eac3 streams: in Blu-rays the eac3 frames are coded to be a complement of the ac3 core. The only way to change eac3 to ac3+eac3 is to reencode.
Whilst TrueHD frames are totally independent from the ac3 frames: the frames are simply interleaved in the same stream.

[gonca]

Originally Posted by a5180007

Edit: IMO it cannot be done with eac3 streams: in Blu-rays the eac3 frames are coded to be a complement of the ac3 core. The only way to change eac3 to ac3+eac3 is to reencode.
Whilst TrueHD frames are totally independent from the ac3 frames: the frames are simply interleaved in the same stream.

Fair enough, and thanks for your efforts so far

[von Suppé]

In case of importing TrueHD+Atmos or EAC3 JOC, it would be nice if tsMuxer GUI's track info would show such information.
Any chance this can be implemented?

[von Suppé]

Wow, that's quick, thanks. Can you do this for E-AC3 JOC too?

[a5180007]

Originally Posted by von Suppé

Wow, that's quick, thanks. Can you do this for E-AC3 JOC too?

@von Suppé True-HD was easy: if there are four substreams, the fourth is deemed to be Atmos.
It is more complicated for EAC3 JOC: from what I can gather all audio frame and blocks need to be fully parsed before arriving to the auxiliary data, so as to test the presence of Atmos metadata.