HD-DVD ripping story

[kctobyjoe2012]

I own a number of HD-DVD discs and two TOSHIBA players. MOST are available on Blu Ray so I don't bother...however my Streets of Fire is still only available in Blu from Europe. Below is the story of my attempts to get this ripped and re authored to a blu ray disc:


What I had to do after extracting the audio stream (E_AC3) and the VC-1 video field from the EVO file on the disc…

Used TSMUXER to separate each file

The audio stream was run through Total Audio Converter to convert the stream into DTS

I remuxed them, then used BD-Rebuilder to join them…then IMGBURN for the image…burnt and viola a playable disc

This is only the second HD-DVD out of the ones I own that I TRIED to make into a Blu Ray. MOST I have already as native Blu ray discs. _Smokey and the Bandit_ as an HD-DVD evidently had a different audio stream; I did that one a few years ago without incident.

It APPEARS that E_AC3 (DD+) stream is a bugger transcoding (if that is the right terminology)
I almost gave up

It's a done deal

(hands clapping)

[newpball]

Good work!

For total coolness you could make a YouTube video doing the whole procedure!

[kctobyjoe2012]

I don't have the technical expertise ;-( Believe me !!!

[newpball]

I don't have the technical expertise ;-( Believe me !!!

It's not hard at all!

And while not the best you can even do it with VLC!

[wulf109]

I converted all my HD-DVD's to BR using TSmuxer. I just loaded the EVO files in and it created a BR directory. Maybe Streets of Fire is different? I know that TSmuxer cannot read some HD audio files from HD-DVD.

[kctobyjoe2012]

YES SOF is different...its the audio soundtrack...it is a form of Dolby Digital I do not understand...I was FORCED to change it FINALLY into a DTS stream; using TSMUXER and a few other tools netted me NAUGHT. The E_AC3 stream was stubborn...in fact I got ZERO sound using TSMUXER. After I tracked down the tool I mentioned I figured to give it one last shot transcoding to DTS...to my amazement it worked. So now I have sound and video; movie only until my GERMAN import gets here...