Can't extract wav or AC3 from VOB w/ DTS audio. Use DVD2AVI

[webbjs11]

I have always had luck extracting a wav or AC3 file from a VOB with DD audio. Yesterday I had my first VOB with DTS audio and couldn't extract any audio.

Is there a special setting in DVD2AVI for this?

[wulf109]

DVD2AVI was written before DTS existed so it's no surprise it won't read it. The DTS stream is usually #2,why not use #1 stream-ac3?
VOBEDIT will demux DTS stream,do a search and see if tools exist to convert DTS to wav or mpa.

[FulciLives]

Actually the newest version of DVD2AVI can extract DTS but I don't trust the D2V project files it creates. So use the newest version of DVD2AVI to get the DTS audio BUT then run the VOB files again through the 1.76 version if you need to use the D2V project file as the 1.76 version seems to work best but does not extract DTS.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

*** EDIT ***
Please note that when I say the newest version of DVD2AVI can "extract" DTS audio I mean to say that it can DEMUX DTS audio. I do not know if you can DECODE the DTS to a WAV file. That is something I have never tried to do with DTS audio.

[webbjs11]

I did use the latest version of DVD2AVI and was able to demux all tracks, both AC3 and DTS. I did use TMPGEnc to encode the video only using the created d2v and got a "stream error" about 86% of the way through. Maybe I'll take your advice and use DVD2AVI v1.76 again to get the d2v file.

I do have a question. If I am creating a DVD, why would I want to decode the AC3 or DTS to a wav file? Why wouldn't I import one of these
streams into DVD Lab and maintain the audio information? Wouldn't all the surround information be lost upon decoding to wav?

Also, if my receiver is pro-logic, it couldn't handle the DTS anyway. Shouldn't I use the AC3 file so my receive can at least extract the pro-logic information?

[FulciLives]

I did use the latest version of DVD2AVI and was able to demux all tracks, both AC3 and DTS. I did use TMPGEnc to encode the video only using the created d2v and got a "stream error" about 86% of the way through. Maybe I'll take your advice and use DVD2AVI v1.76 again to get the d2v file.

I do have a question. If I am creating a DVD, why would I want to decode the AC3 or DTS to a wav file? Why wouldn't I import one of these
streams into DVD Lab and maintain the audio information? Wouldn't all the surround information be lost upon decoding to wav?

Also, if my receiver is pro-logic, it couldn't handle the DTS anyway. Shouldn't I use the AC3 file so my receive can at least extract the pro-logic information?

Well your original post didn't say you were dong this for a DVD and since so many people play around with so many different video types (VCD, SVCD, DIVX, Etc.) I was not sure what you were doing.

So if you are making a DVD then yes of course you want to use the original demuxed audio without making any further changes.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman