Makemkv can rip the hd audio, in tact Vlc will only play the core of both Bitsteam audio can be passed to a receiver that recognizes dts-ma/truehd.
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:58:29 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [H] MKV Questions I use MakeMKV to rip blu-rays without compression. I play them back with VLC. I'm not clear as to whether MakeMKV can actually rip the lossless audio tracks (Dolby TrueHD or DTS Master Audio HD). Moreover, I'm not sure if VLC can play them back by streaming the lossless tracks over the HDMI to let the receiver handle them. I see no indication on my AV receiver that it is decoding either TrueHD or DTS Master Audio. In short, if the track is there, will VLC not downmix it? Several of my rips let me select a lossless track when played with VLC. VLC also will output to an audio device that it calls "A/52 over S/PDIF". I'm not really sure what outputting to that device means since all sound goes out over the HDMI cable to the receiver. However, I do seem to get the best (louder) sound when I pair "lossless" and "A/52 over S/PDIF". What's the dealio here? Is there another MKV player that will handle lossless audio?
