Audio Question with DVD Shrink

[hitekfreak]

I am backing up my new Bruce Almighty DVD and it has AC6English and DTS6English. Which one do I keep? thanks.

[thing914]

in my limited DVD Shrink experience the DTS files are usually bigger, so if you want to sqeeze the last bit of quality keep the AC3. I tend to keep just the DTS for what I think is a bit better sound. But you can only play on a system with a DTS decoder in it.

[hitekfreak]

Thanks for the quick reply, I will go with DTS since it compresses 93% vs. AC3 at 96%.

[myckee]

DTS is fine if you have a sound system that can decode it. If not, you will have no sound. Many people do not have DTS capable systems; as such you won't be able to lend anyone your disc nor will you be able to copy to a video tape.

I have a dts capable surround sound system, and I honestly prefer the standard Dolby Digital sound (AC3) over DTS.

[hitekfreak]

myckee,
You are right, No sound with just DTS. I just waiste a disk but learn a new thing.

[GabeB]

LOL

[Clanduncan]

I tend to choose the best quality audio track, and that would be DTS if available, but I don't compress it (although I didn't know there was an option to compress the audio) I compress the video instead. Even a 2 & 1/2 hour film compressed by 40% with the audio untouched, I couldn't tell the difference.

Roll on, this is the best DVD archiver I've seen yet.

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[Poppa_Meth]

you don't compress audio in DVD shrink. I think he's refering to the overall compression ratio. and just so you know 96% is less compression than 93%. Its a little misleading the way its laid out. but the lower the compression percentage the more compression its doing.

[hitekfreak]

Poppa_meth

AC3 folder is around 300MB and DTS is around 600MB. If I select AC3 then the compression of the movie goes to 96% and 93% for just DTS and 84% for both sound folder check. So how come the 96% compression is less than 93%? Confuse....

[Poppa_Meth]

because its not really a measurement of the compression but of the total disk space. when you are compressing everything its saying that the movie will be compressed to 84% of the original size to fit on one disk. when you knock out the DTS track its saying that the movie only needs to be compressed to 96% of its original size. its a measurement of how big the resulting files will be in comparison to the original files on the DVD.