Need audio help and general suggestions for RipBot

[blammo585]

I started ripping a few blurays with RipBot, but I'm unsure of how to get the best results. I'm also very confused about the playback of the audio with different players. I ripped Open Season 2 and chose mkv. For audio I chose "Copy STREAM". I have to put my receiver on the 6 channel input to hear the sound. I compared it to the bluray and the audio was much better on the actual bluray. But I thought Copy STREAM meant that it copied the original Dolby TrueHD audio. When I use SageTV and VLC, the video will play but I have to use the multichannel input on my receiver. But when I used Media Player Classic, I got audio over SPDIF. I don't understand why MPC would do it, but SageTV and VLC wouldn't. I re-ripped Open Season 2, this time choosing the highest bitrate AC3 choice in RipBot. But still the audio only plays through the analogs. What is the best way to do things? Am I wrong about the "Copy STREAM" being the original audio?

[poisondeathray]

TrueHD wasn't supported by tsmuxer (used as one of the back end applications by ripbot) until a few days ago

You can do it manually (just add it in) with the new tsmuxer, or wait a while until ripbot is updated with the new version

[blammo585]

How do I do it manually?

[poisondeathray]

Just make a new .m2ts. MKV doesn't support TrueHD yet.

Add the tracks, (checkmark them), press "start muxing". Make sure you are using the 1.8.18b version. The .exe is dated 2/17/2009. The GUI is from the older version but works fine

SPDIF doesn't support lossless multichannel, the audio must have been converted when you used MPC over SPDIF (unless you were referring to the 5.1AC3)

[blammo585]

That's what I don't know. SageTV says the audio is 48khz, AC3. if it's ac3 then why won't it play over spdif? and, is mpc, in fact converting it on the fly?

[blammo585]

Trying to read back over your posts; I'm confused. Originally you said TrueHD wasn't supported by tsmuxer until a few days ago and then said "or wait a while until ripbot is updated...". Then in the 2nd post you said MKV doesn't support TrueHD yet. Is the limitation within MKV its self? Or is it because RipBot isn't updated yet? If I do what you say, will I be making a file outside of RipBot?

[poisondeathray]

The limitation applies to both. 1) MKV doesn't support it. 2) When/If ripbot gets updated, you should be able to copy to .m2ts, but not to .mkv . My understanding is that no current PC hardware supports TrueHD decoding properly - everything gets converted or downsampled. There are a few soundcards that will be released soon that will fix this. So you are better off playing the .m2ts off your ps3 or standalone unit for now