DTS Conversion

[Bean Bandit]

I ran into a problem a few weeks ago and just kinda got around to looking for a solution. I ripped my Our Man Flint and In Like Flint Blu-Rays for my BoxeeBox. Both are recorded in a DTS-HD Master Audio Mono for english only and it seems there's a bug with BoxeeBox with DTS Mono. Basicly I get no audio at all when I play thru my BoxeeBox. Is there a way to convert this from anything else other then DTS Mono?

I'm not replacing my Boxee until it breaks even though I would like to get rid of it for a better system.

Ok I just now realised I put this in the wrong section.

[Kerry56]

What format are your movies in now? MKV, MP4, M2TS...? Or does the BoxeeBox support blu ray format directly?

Have you tried using ClownBD to convert the audio to AC3?

[jman98]

It's not that big a deal that you put this in the wrong section. For the most part, that only makes a big difference for Mac related posts which really do need to go in the Mac forum.

Technically speaking, there's not really any such thing as DTS mono. DTS is a 5.1 or 6.1 or 7.1 only format. It is theoretically possible to put fewer channels in it and have the extra channels be blank, but I can understand that trying to convert a mono DTS-HD track to DTS mono would have problems. I'd suggest converting to AC3 like Kerry56 suggested. AC3 does support 1 channel mono. Other possible conversion programs would include eac3to and PopCorn MKV Audio Converter.

[El Heggunte]

Technically speaking, there's not really any such thing as DTS mono. DTS is a 5.1 or 6.1 or 7.1 only format. It is theoretically possible to put fewer channels in it and have the extra channels be blank, but I can understand that trying to convert a mono DTS-HD track to DTS mono would have problems.

Sorry, jman98, but that's very-incorrect. "Vanilla" DTS (technically speaking, DTS "Coherent Acoustics") supports mono, stereo, 3, 4 and 5 channels, the LFE channel being an option, plus the following sampling frequencies: 48, 44.1, 32, 24, 22.05, 16, 12, 11.025 and 8 kiloHertz, and also ANY bitrate between 0kbps and 1536kbps. NO commercial encoder has ever supported all the possibilities of the format, but this is a different story already.

[Bean Bandit]

Yea I just thought about that today. The format is MKV.

Here's the info.

General
Unique ID : 252806671072273723854888106894305370633 (0xBE30CB36352F291EB667DA6BAC1DA209)
Complete name : D:\Our Man Flint 1080p.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 5.85 GiB
Duration : 1h 47mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 7 777 Kbps
Movie name : Our Man Flint 1080p
Encoded date : UTC 2013-05-24 14:14:00
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.7.0 ('The Whirlwind') built on Jul 8 2012 20:08:51
Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 47mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 7 007 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 62.5 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.187
Stream size : 5.16 GiB (88%)
Writing library : x264 core 125 r2208 d9d2288
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=7007 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=62500 / vbv_bufsize=62500 / nal_hrd=vbr / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Mode : 16
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 47mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel positions : Front: C
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 592 MiB (10%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

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[jman98]

Sorry, jman98, but that's very-incorrect. "Vanilla" DTS (technically speaking, DTS "Coherent Acoustics") supports mono, stereo, 3, 4 and 5 channels, the LFE channel being an option, plus the following sampling frequencies: 48, 44.1, 32, 24, 22.05, 16, 12, 11.025 and 8 kiloHertz, and also ANY bitrate between 0kbps and 1536kbps. NO commercial encoder has ever supported all the possibilities of the format, but this is a different story already.

No problem with being wrong, but you are quite right that no commercial encoder has ever supported all the possibilites of the format, hence my statement. I was basing it on what I had seen in the past when I had access to a commercial encoder. That one absolutely did not take anything under 5.1 channels.

[Bean Bandit]

What format are your movies in now? MKV, MP4, M2TS...? Or does the BoxeeBox support blu ray format directly?

Have you tried using ClownBD to convert the audio to AC3?

Never heard of it or even tried it. I've never really had a problem like this so. This also would mean I'm a noob on using this as well.