Thanks for the instructions to do this people. I must say that this works quite well. Tried it for the first time and was able to rip the audio tracks off the DVD that came with Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe.
So now I have 3 versions of the album: A) The CD version. B) The 5.1 DTS version C) I also let Audio Extracter create a 2 channel 48khz, 24bit flac based on the 5.1 dts data. B & C were both 48khz. Some questions: 1) When I did C) I didn't have a way to check (or didn't know) what bit depth to use when creating the flac so I reckoned use the biggest as at least I won't throw anything away. How do I check which I should use? 2) How does Audio Extracter do the 5.1->2channel? How does it decide what to keep / how to keep it? 3) Or to put it differently if I had to keep one of A or C which should I keep (in theory)? I understand that the DTS is lossy compression so that would tend me to A. But C has 48khz sampling so that would pull me to C. 4) There was a 5.1 AC3 as well but I gather that the DTS is better? Is this right? Or is it more subtle than that? 5) I tried the DVD that came with another CD I had and it had LPCM 48khz,16bit (2ch) audio data. I presume this should in theory be better than the CD data (as both are lossless but the 48 beets 44)? Although in this case the tracks are not exactly the same on the DVD versus the CD. Other things I found helpful: - You can pass "*.dts" instead of the full filename to the script and it will convert all dts files in the directory. The instructions was indicating running it with a specific file name. - I found that the .dts files created can be played by VLC directly. Cheers Louis -- lrossouw Louis 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lrossouw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3416 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19260 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
