I have a bunch of MKVs with FLAC audio (varying from FLAC 1.0, 2.0 and 7.1) that I want to convert to DTS-HD MA.
I thought i could attempt to do this with eac3to alongside the arcsoft, surcode or DTS-HD Master Suite software. I'm running Windows 10 FYI.
Has anyone had good experience with latest windows trying to get this done? I run eac3to (using the UsEac3to GUI) and select the functionality to convert Track #2: FLAC to DTS from within eac3to.
I always end up getting the error: "Pressing the Surcode "Encode" button didn't seem to work..." I tried making the file names 1 character long and on a very short file path (i.e. F:/Movies/a.mkv) but still get the same error, on either 1.0.21 or 1.0.29 Surcode version.
I thought...well how about I just convert the FLAC to wavs (I tried it on a mono FLAC giving me just one center .wav file) then run it through Surcode...well Surcode converts that center mono file into a five channel DTS track (which I can successfully mux with the video but I feel like this is wrong...).
So lastly, I wanted to try with the actual DTS-HD Master Suite software, which seems like the most viable. I tried converting the single center channel .wav file but the encode just seems frozen in my queue as pending...
So any idea what would be the best way to tackle my goal of converting FLAC 1.0/2.0/7.1 from an MKV into DTS-HD MA 1.0/2.0/7.1 (respectively) in an MKV?
I saw this which seemed to indicate people don't reccommend DTS-HD Master Suite...
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=158611
Also Arcsoft 6 doesn't even work on Window 10 anymore. I used this work around from another post that, when I run eac3to test, it detects Arcsoft dtsdecoder dll to be working (idk if it actually is though...).
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=154070