Converting DTS-HD audio

Kerry56

I bought a new Blu ray movie and my sister wanted to watch it at her house, but she doesn't have a blu ray player. I decided to make a backup in dvd-video format for her to watch....she doesn't watch a movie more than once, so its coming straight back to me afterwards.

My problems began with the audio streams that were available in the blu ray. The primary sound is DTS-HD Master Audio. The only AC-3 stream in English is the commentary track, so that was out. The DTS stream tends to choke every program I have for conversion of M2TS files into mpg2, so I had to do it separately. I got the video stream converted using AviSynth and HCenc fairly easily, but had no clue on what would work with DTS-HD MA.

Removed the audio stream with tsMuxeR, then started trying programs to convert the DTS-HD to something that would work in dvd-video. The first one that worked was Audacity with the ffmpeg plug-in, converting to AC-3. I had to use a custom mix in the Export Preferences to get multi-channel sound.

My question is...what program is optimal for this conversion to AC3? Or would it be better to use DTS audio? Can the DTS-HD be downsampled to a small enough size to fit in the dvd-video on a single layer dvd? As it came out of the blu ray, it was over 3gb in size.

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t0nee1

Have you looked into eac3to?..
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/eac3to

And some good reading/info here..
http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11

I'll be doing the reading up on it, as soon as I git me a BR drive..I have a few BR discs, that I'd love rip/copy..Already have the PS3 player..

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Kerry56

ClownBD, which is a gui for eac3to, was on the list of programs to try. Just didn't start with it.

Audio is not my strong suit obviously. Thanks t0nee1.

By the way, what is DTS core out of a DTS-HD track?

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t0nee1

As I stated above, I'm not quite into Bluray-> conversions yet!..Here's the wiki..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS-HD_Master_Audio

Maybe it's time for me to jump on the BR train..

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