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Old 15th June 2009, 08:50   #1  |  Link
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Basic Blu-ray DTS eac3to question

I was following a guide on Blu-ray to MKV conversion and it stated that for DTS audio tracks, the following command format should be used:

eac3to “<drive>:\<folders>\<file name>.m2ts” <track>: “<drive>:\<folders>\audio_track<track number>.dts” -1536

and further more that Surcode was required for this step.

However, from a bit of reading about I found that I could just extract the core DTS track by using the -core option in place of -1536 in the above command. This doesn't need Surcode and the resulting track still muxes and plays fine with the movie.

I assume I'm losing out somehow by doing the latter, but what? I know I'm not getting the full original quality DTS from the core track, but is there any advantage to doing that if you are going to re-encode it to "standard" 1538 kbps DTS anyway?
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Old 15th June 2009, 09:17   #2  |  Link
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I do it the same and haven't noticed any degrade in audio quality, if it works for you stick with it.
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Old 15th June 2009, 14:27   #3  |  Link
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Thanks. I'd still like to know the difference since I'm trying learn and understand as much as possible.
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I know I'm not getting the full original quality DTS from the core track
Yes you are. You're getting the original DTS core bit-for-bit. There's NO reason to re-encode to the same format and bitrate.
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But it's not the same as DTS HD.
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Old 16th June 2009, 04:24   #6  |  Link
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The "core track" is only lossy DTS anyway. I don't mean to get sidetracked into semantics, just to make sure we're all talking about the same thing.
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Old 16th June 2009, 08:30   #7  |  Link
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Yes you are. You're getting the original DTS core bit-for-bit. There's NO reason to re-encode to the same format and bitrate.
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But it's not the same as DTS HD.
This is kind of what I'm getting at. If you take the full DTS HD and re-encode to a new 1536kbps DTS do you end up with something similar, better or worse than the original core track?

Guess I'll keep using the core. The guide I was following may have been giving a generic step to apply for any DTS/TrueHD audio tracks.
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