VideoHelp Forum
+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 17 of 17
Thread
  1. I'm trying to rip Mad Max Fury Road to fit on BD25. It'll fit with reencoding the video if I use ac3 audio problem The HD stream is TRUEHD/AC3 usually when I get this format I just use the core because it'll be at 640 and be done with it or there will be another english 5.1 track solely in ac3 by itself on a different stream. Well for some reason the core on the Mad Max (non 3D version, USA) the core is 384 and the extra stream is 448 and is descriptive audio. I want the main audio to be 640 ac3 so it'll fit on the BD25 and not be as low as 384 quality (the core).

    Problem is no program will let me just convert the TRUEHD to ac3 640 it wont work. I either get the core at 384 or the huge 5GB TrueHD (which wont fit). Am i gonna have to convert TRUEHD/AC3 to DTS-MA somehow then back to 640 ac3 since no program so far will let me convert straight from TRUEHD to 640 w/o error or giving me 384 core instead?
    Quote Quote  
  2. eac3to should encode it, try something like this:
    eac3to.exe "C:\demux\movie.thd+AC3" "C:\encode\movie.ac3" -640 -down6 -down24
    Quote Quote  
  3. Banned
    Join Date
    Feb 2013
    Search PM
    There is a round about way to do it

    In BD_RB create an Alternate output >> Intact video --- Intact audio to MKV
    It will separate the TRUEHD from the core
    Use MKVMerge to remux just the tracks you want >>> Video, TRUEHD audio, subtitles
    Import to BD_RB and encode to BD25
    Quote Quote  
  4. Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Australia
    Search Comp PM
    Are you talking about BD structure to BD structure?

    You should be able to use EAC3to to extract the TrueHD without the core, then re-encode the core to 640kbps.

    http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=172060

    Then use TSMuxer to mux it all back into m2ts files to replace the original files. Re-encode from there.

    It could be simpler or harder than that.

    It should be possible, but it depends on what you're actually doing and what programs you're using.
    Last edited by ndjamena; 26th Dec 2015 at 10:29.
    Quote Quote  
  5. Originally Posted by _Al_ View Post
    eac3to should encode it, try something like this:
    eac3to.exe "C:\demux\movie.thd+AC3" "C:\encode\movie.ac3" -640 -down6 -down24
    It errors out

    Originally Posted by gonca View Post
    There is a round about way to do it

    In BD_RB create an Alternate output >> Intact video --- Intact audio to MKV
    It will separate the TRUEHD from the core
    Use MKVMerge to remux just the tracks you want >>> Video, TRUEHD audio, subtitles
    Import to BD_RB and encode to BD25
    The TrueHD i can get byitself but its 5GB and makes it too big for BD25. When I try to reencode the TRueHD to 640 it errors out or gives me the384 core.

    ndjamena
    You should be able to use EAC3to to extract the TrueHD without the core, then re-encode the core to 640kbps.
    The core is 384 naturally if I reencode it to 640 it'll still be 384 quality just bigger. Upsize your fries with that? More fries, but still the same crappy fries.
    Quote Quote  
  6. Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Australia
    Search Comp PM
    I'm confused at to what the hell you're trying to do.

    EAC3To can take a TrueHD stream without and core and create a new one for it, hence "re-encode the core".

    I don't know if you need that because I don't know what you're doing or what you intend, but whatever the hell you're doing it can't be that hard. The hard part is giving you advice without knowing the actual goal.
    Quote Quote  
  7. Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Australia
    Search Comp PM
    If it helps, Fury Road is an Atmos stream. If the programs you're using aren't up to date they'll crash while attempting to read it.

    But updated programs should have been the first thing you tried.
    Quote Quote  
  8. Originally Posted by ndjamena View Post
    I'm confused at to what the hell you're trying to do.

    EAC3To can take a TrueHD stream without and core and create a new one for it, hence "re-encode the core".

    I don't know if you need that because I don't know what you're doing or what you intend, but whatever the hell you're doing it can't be that hard. The hard part is giving you advice without knowing the actual goal.

    Simple Make TrueHD/AC3 (384kbps core) a 640kbps AC3 and I get an error: [09:50:44] Bitstream parsing for track 3 failed.
    [09:50:45] Demuxing this track may still produce correct results - or not.

    Originally Posted by ndjamena View Post
    If it helps, Fury Road is an Atmos stream. If the programs you're using aren't up to date they'll crash while attempting to read it.

    But updated programs should have been the first thing you tried.
    Thanks yes this helps a little.

    The goal: Get BD50 Mad max Fury Road onto BD25 w/o reencoding video. If I keep TRUEHD it's too big for BD25 (w/o reencoding video) if I use ac3 it fits. Only way to do this is get rid of all audio/video streams except main video & audio in ac3 format. 384 core quality is too low for me, hence why I want 640 ac3.

    ANYWAY THANKS ALL!

    Anyway thanks guys, I already made a backup copy and just used 384 stream. This audio is different than the norm due to the 384 core and the fact it errors trying to do TrueHD (w/o core) to ac3. Prolly because it Atmos like ndjamena mentioned. Normally i use core cause its 640 or the TrueHD will convert to 640 w/o errors.
    Last edited by PatrickBatman; 26th Dec 2015 at 11:01.
    Quote Quote  
  9. Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Australia
    Search Comp PM
    Originally Posted by PatrickBatman View Post
    I'm trying to rip Mad Max Fury Road to fit on BD25.
    Are you trying to keep the menus?

    In what format do you need it?

    Is it ok to simply point MakeMKV at the thing, because I know for a fact that using MakeMKV to re-encode the TrueHD into an MKV will work.

    Then all you need to do is re-encode the video and shift the title into a blu ray format.
    Quote Quote  
  10. Banned
    Join Date
    Feb 2013
    Search PM
    MKVMerge should separate the TRUEHD from the core
    Remux and keep the TRUEHD track in the MKV
    Import to BD_RB
    Output to BD 25 --- make sure the appropriate audio options are selected
    This is how I did it -- and it worked
    Quote Quote  
  11. Are you using eac3to to demux your stream before? Make sure you use latest eac3to. You do not mention what software you use.
    eac3to.exe "F:\BDMV" 1) 3: "C:\demux\movie.THD+AC3"
    1) would mean title 1 on BD and 3: track 3. I do not have that BD so your numbers might be different
    or follow this to run commands in a sequence to know what you have on that BD
    Last edited by _Al_; 26th Dec 2015 at 11:46.
    Quote Quote  
  12. Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Australia
    Search Comp PM
    Code:
    General
    Unique ID                                : 303732258775080719766595510512430209111 (0xE480B489A255FC27A22307343201D857)
    Complete name                            : D:\Mad Max Fury Road.mkv
    Format                                   : Matroska
    Format version                           : Version 2
    File size                                : 21.5 GiB
    Duration                                 : 2h 0mn
    Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
    Overall bit rate                         : 25.5 Mbps
    Movie name                               : Mad Max Fury Road
    Encoded date                             : UTC 2015-12-26 17:05:00
    Writing application                      : MakeMKV v1.9.8 win(x64-release)
    Writing library                          : libmakemkv v1.9.8 (1.3.3/1.4.4) win(x64-release)
    Original source medium                   : Blu-ray
    
    Video
    ID                                       : 1
    ID in the original source medium         : 4113 (0x1011)
    Format                                   : AVC
    Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
    Format profile                           : High@L4.1
    Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
    Format settings, ReFrames                : 2 frames
    Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
    Duration                                 : 2h 0mn
    Bit rate mode                            : Variable
    Bit rate                                 : 2 488 Kbps
    Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
    Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
    Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
    Frame rate mode                          : Constant
    Frame rate                               : 23.976 (24000/1001) fps
    Color space                              : YUV
    Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
    Bit depth                                : 8 bits
    Scan type                                : Progressive
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.050
    Stream size                              : 20.9 GiB (97%)
    Language                                 : English
    Default                                  : No
    Forced                                   : No
    
    Audio
    ID                                       : 2
    ID in the original source medium         : 4352 (0x1100)
    Format                                   : AC-3
    Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
    Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
    Format settings, Endianness              : Big
    Codec ID                                 : A_AC3
    Duration                                 : 2h 0mn
    Bit rate mode                            : Constant
    Bit rate                                 : 640 Kbps
    Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
    Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
    Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
    Frame rate                               : 31.250 fps (1536 spf)
    Compression mode                         : Lossy
    Stream size                              : 551 MiB (3%)
    Title                                    : Surround 5.1
    Language                                 : English
    Default                                  : Yes
    Forced                                   : No
    
    Text
    ID                                       : 3
    ID in the original source medium         : 4608 (0x1200)
    Format                                   : PGS
    Muxing mode                              : zlib
    Codec ID                                 : S_HDMV/PGS
    Codec ID/Info                            : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
    Duration                                 : 2h 0mn
    Bit rate                                 : 1 760 bps
    Count of elements                        : 2334
    Stream size                              : 6.57 MiB (0%)
    Language                                 : English
    Default                                  : No
    Forced                                   : No
    
    Menu
    00:00:00.000                             : en:Chapter 01
    00:10:42.433                             : en:Chapter 02
    00:19:06.353                             : en:Chapter 03
    00:30:12.310                             : en:Chapter 04
    00:42:55.573                             : en:Chapter 05
    00:49:33.303                             : en:Chapter 06
    00:59:54.966                             : en:Chapter 07
    01:13:02.503                             : en:Chapter 08
    01:22:08.924                             : en:Chapter 09
    01:30:02.480                             : en:Chapter 10
    01:40:39.825                             : en:Chapter 11
    01:49:12.546                             : en:Chapter 12
    01:53:06.279                             : en:Chapter 13
    Mad Max Fury road with a 640kbps AC-3 stream. And yes, it would fit nicely onto a 25GB disc. The audio wasn't only larger than it needed to be because it was Atmos, being Atmos the TrueHD had 7.1 channels as well, which would be why the AC-3 core was given such a low bitrate.

    Converted to a BD structure and written into an iso it comes out as 24,185,143,296 bytes in size.

    Code:
        <outputSettings name="AC3-640" outputFormat="AC3">
            <description lang="eng">Save as AC3 (640kbps)</description>
          <extraArgs>-b 640k</extraArgs>
        </outputSettings>
    
    
        <audioMixSettings name="Down51"
            outputChannelLayout="5.1">
            <description lang="eng">Downmix to 5.1</description>
        </audioMixSettings>
    
    
        <trackSettings input="TRUEHD-multi">
            <output outputSettingsName="copy"
                    defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString,-sel:all">
            </output>
            <output outputSettingsName="AC3-640"
                    defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"
                    audioMix="Down51">
            </output>
        </trackSettings>
    Quote Quote  
  13. I use BD-Rebuilder (50.11), i would think Jdobbs would add an updated eac3to program thats builtin if needed but perhaps he hasn't I'd have to check. Well i just checked and could of sworn BD-Rebuilder used eac3to but i couldnt find the executable in the tools folder or any other folder for that matter. (i have only slept 4 hours though so maybe im missing it)

    Ok im getting the latest 3.31 eac3to and as far as mkv i didnt think bluray standards would accept mkv on a BD25. I can make another better copy with my real copy.
    Quote Quote  
  14. Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Australia
    Search Comp PM
    It doesn't.

    The MKV contains h.264, ac-3 and pgs.

    TSMuxer takes those tracks out of the MKV and puts it in an m2ts. They're the same codecs, they don't change because they've been in another container. An AC-3 track made by MakeMKV is the same as an AC-3 track made by the official Dolby encoder for a Blu Ray. All TSMuxer needs to do is take it out of the MKV and put it into an m2ts file and no program should be able to tell the difference.
    Quote Quote  
  15. Member
    Join Date
    Jan 2001
    Location
    United States
    Search PM
    All you have to do is use eac3to command prompt to extract the AC3 embedded audio file.
    Quote Quote  
  16. Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Australia
    Search Comp PM
    The core was 384kbps, he needed 640kbps and apparently he was finding it difficult.

    I think I've heard it said that the FFMPEG AC-3 encoder used by MakeMKV is better than the Aften AC-3 Encoder used by EAC3To.

    I may be mistaken there though.
    Quote Quote  
  17. Good lord I just update eac3to from 2.27 to 3.31 and ran ClownBD no errors, no problems immediately converted to 640. Guess it was just a simple as an update. Apparently 2.27 cant handle the Atmos stream. Thanks guys
    Quote Quote  



Similar Threads

Visit our sponsor! Try DVDFab and backup Blu-rays!