I've uploaded a new version (0.3) of the conversion utility. Ordinarily, if the utility finds an AC3 or DTS frame which it can't handle, the conversion is aborted. The utility assumes that the rest of the file will contain unexpected frames, or is maybe junk data that happens to contain the right magic numbers.
In the case of the Depeche Mode DVD mentioned earlier in this thread, two tracks started with junk data which was followed a series of valid audio frames. I've added the new conversion option *--persevere* to instruct the utility to keep looking for valid frames after encountering bad data. This behaviour is not enabled by default because the penalty for persevering in a file full of bad data is a very slow run of the utility, consuming a lot of CPU cycles to end up with no output. But in the case of an odd ac3 stream ripped from a DVD, among other known-good ac3 streams in other files, it's worth trying the option to see if audio can be recovered from the stream. (depeche was good enough to test the new version of the utility on his (or her) broken AC3 streams, and has reported that audio was successfully extracted.) -- smst ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19260 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
