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MKV - DTS to AC3 nightmare | ||
| aaron1104 posted 2009 Oct 10 21:52 | ||
| Hi all! new to this site and i hope someone can help me... ok my TV plays MKV formats via usb, but it wont do the whole DTS audio so i need to convert the audio to AC3... problem is I've tried everything and im super lost here - for some reason i cant install that pocorn program because i have vista 64... anyways i;m really lost and if someone could let me know the easited way to convert the MKV file i already have to MKV AC3 i will be great full ... im new at this so please help!!! Ive got all these great movies and i cant hear them....
Thanks Aaron | ||
| Baldrick posted 2009 Oct 11 03:21 | ||
| Extract the audio using mkvextractgui.
Convert the dts to ac3 using eac3togui. Add the new ac3 to the mkv using mkvmerge. | ||
| mail2tom posted 2009 Oct 11 08:03 | ||
| You can also try PopCorn MKV AudioConverter. I have the same problem with DTS audio and found this worked for me. | ||
| FulciLives posted 2009 Oct 11 08:07 | ||
| I use XVID4PSP to do DTS to AC-3 when I have a MKV with DTS audio. You simply set it to AUDIO only mode then load the MKV and I set it to 640 AC-3 and it will spit out just an AC-3 audio file.
I do this because afterwards I use tsMuxeR to create a M2TS file which has the video from the MKV with my new 640 AC-3 audio track. Thus I can play the file on my PS3. You can also use 448 AC-3 if you prefer (that is what DVD uses for 5.1 audio but devices like the PS3 can handle the higher 640 bitrate). - John "FulciLives" Coleman | ||
| Samas posted 2009 Oct 15 09:37 | ||
Same starting point for me. I need to change DTS to AC3 and I already used mkvextract and megui to create an AC3-file of the DTS one. But when I wanna use mkvmerge to include the ac3 file to the mkv-container I get ERROR-Code 2 with the message "Error: The source file '--ui-language' could not be opened successfully, or retrieving its size by seeking to the end did not work." Always exactly this one, independently what file I deal with, even if I don't change anything within the container. Firstly I thought its a mistake with the language-file of mkv-merge, but neither changing to another mkv-merge-version (2.9.8 to 2.9.7) nor changing the language of the GUI is working... Samas | ||
| jman98 posted 2009 Oct 15 11:53 | ||
| @aaron1104 - If you're going to have to do this all the time, maybe it would be better to just bite the bullet and buy something that supports DTS audio like the Western Digital media players. Here's a recent thread on the new version they just released:
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic374280.html No need to convert DTS audio when you use this player. |
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