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by robpdotcom
Wed Jul 13, 2011 1:38 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: MKV Header Editing / Haali Problem
Replies: 7
Views: 14766

Re: MKV Header Editing / Haali Problem

matrg wrote:Haali does not seem to respect changing the 'Default' flag to 'Yes' on the lossy audio, or even changing the 'Enabled' flag for the lossless audio to 'No'.
Did you also change the lossless default flag to "no"?
by robpdotcom
Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:55 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: I'd go ahead and buy MakeMKV if...
Replies: 26
Views: 39546

Re: I'd go ahead and buy MakeMKV if...

Yes, it can be much bigger. T2 is 44.6GB on the disc. My example of 74GB was with only 1 of the 7 audio tracks. If you ripped all titles to separate mkv's, with all audio/subtitle tracks, it would take about 95GB.
by robpdotcom
Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:08 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: I'd go ahead and buy MakeMKV if...
Replies: 26
Views: 39546

Re: I'd go ahead and buy MakeMKV if...

For multiple versions - Terminator Skynet Bluray Edition has three versions of the movie. Each one is saveable by just selecting it. That results in, if you keep one subtitle track and only the lossless audio, about 74GB's being used. The method I am talking about allows you to have all versions, i...
by robpdotcom
Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:35 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: I'd go ahead and buy MakeMKV if...
Replies: 26
Views: 39546

Re: I'd go ahead and buy MakeMKV if...

How do you name the files? MakeMKV let's me select the directory, but it always names the files: "title00.mkv", title01.mkv", etc. For #7, I'm talking about mkv's with more than one version of the movie in one file. I recently ripped a movie with two versions: Theatrical and Extended....
by robpdotcom
Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:08 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: default is *not to rip* HD audio?
Replies: 9
Views: 15548

Re: default is *not to rip* HD audio?

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that you were agreeing with the reasoning - I should have quoted your whole sentence: "I know it's been said that by default they want the core audio...." :wink: It's been a long time since I've seen a new release with TrueHD, but I trust that you're correct th...
by robpdotcom
Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:58 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: I'd go ahead and buy MakeMKV if...
Replies: 26
Views: 39546

I'd go ahead and buy MakeMKV if...

These features were added: 1) An option to rip the HD audio tracks by default. 2) It were possible to name titles and streams. 3) It were possible to set default and forced flags (actually, this should be automatic when extracting forced subtitles). 4) It were possible to name output files. 5) Abili...
by robpdotcom
Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:33 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: default is *not to rip* HD audio?
Replies: 9
Views: 15548

Re: default is *not to rip* HD audio?

they want the core audio because it's compatible with more devices. Is there any device that is compatible with the DTS core, and not DTS-HD MA? Isn't that one of the beauties of DTS - it's backwards compatibility? Considering DTS-HD MA is pretty much the only format used now, extracting the core o...
by robpdotcom
Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:37 am
Forum: Blu-ray discs
Topic: New protection? Season of the Witch BD
Replies: 16
Views: 26103

Re: New protection? Season of the Witch BD

Romansh wrote:There is currently no open-source VC-1 decoder which supports interlaced compression.
Microsoft's WMVideo Decoder and ffdshow's wmv-9 both can play interlaced VC-1.
by robpdotcom
Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:46 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Question regarding sound formats
Replies: 1
Views: 5400

Re: Question regarding sound formats

DTS-HD MA always contains a DTS core. Dolby TrueHD never contains a core in mkv. If you only want to play the file on devices that support HD audio: Do not select the core. If you want to keep the HD audio, and still maintain compatibility with devices that do not support HD audio: Select DTS-HD onl...
by robpdotcom
Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:17 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: How to convert PCM into Flac
Replies: 29
Views: 151365

Re: How to convert PCM into Flac

You should use eac3to to convert LPCM to flac. It will do a full lossless conversion.

The easiest way is to rip the movie with MakeMKV > use eac3to to convert LPCM to flac > remux with mkvmerge. You can use eac3to in command line, or there are a few GUI's.
by robpdotcom
Wed May 25, 2011 3:37 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Making an MKV with DTS-HD Master, leaving the core stream
Replies: 4
Views: 7335

Re: Making an MKV with DTS-HD Master, leaving the core strea

If you select the core only, you only get the core. If you select only DTS-HD MA, you get both, because the DTS core is always present in DTS-HD MA.
by robpdotcom
Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:03 am
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: All frames in VC1 and H264 video streams are key frames
Replies: 7
Views: 14092

Re: All frames in VC1 and H264 video streams are key frames

You could use TSMuxer to put the mkv back into a Bluray structure (if you have PGS subs, you'll need to extract those, which should be quicker than extracting the video), then run MakeMKV to re-create the mkv. Not perfect, but it may be a temporary workaround.
by robpdotcom
Fri Apr 29, 2011 4:49 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: All frames in VC1 and H264 video streams are key frames
Replies: 7
Views: 14092

Re: All frames in VC1 and H264 video streams are key frames

Since MakeMKV marks the subtitles as a default track, I remux the MKV it produces with mkvmerge to turn the default flag off. There's no need to do that. Just open the mkv with MKVMerge GUI's header editor (File>Header Editor), and change the flag. It will take about 1 second to rewrite the header ...
by robpdotcom
Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:38 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Ripping Music/Concert DVDs
Replies: 2
Views: 6248

Re: Ripping Music/Concert DVDs

At least, no one has developed a way to implement menus. And if there was a way to create a menu, no player could currently use them. I do believe we'll see it sooner or later, it's just going to require a developer who's interested. The best option as of now would be to combine all the songs into o...
by robpdotcom
Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:57 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Feature Request: M2TS/TS to MKV
Replies: 4
Views: 8219

Re: Feature Request: M2TS/TS to MKV

Elijah wrote:I am not aware of any mac software able to do this one-step-remuxing, mkvmerge won't open M2TS/TS
Haali's GDSMux will do it. It's included when you install the splitter.