In Reply to: Ripping music from DVD/Bluray/HDDVD posted by Christine Tham on June 9, 2010 at 17:40:10:
If any of your Blu-ray concerts are Dolby TrueHD, check to see if they are using Dialog Normalization. If they are, they're not lossless once decoded. There is a software program that can disable Dialog Normalization, but I don't remember the name. With consumer electronics, you're screwed because Dolby prohibits DN adjustments in their license.
DTS-HD Master Audio requires a bit more processing power to decode. That's why early Blu-ray players, older receivers and some software players can't or have trouble decoding it.
Thankfully DTS-HD Master Audio will become the audio codec for Blu-ray, both for movies and concerts. One encode for lossless and lossy and the encoder defaults to lossless (unlike Dolby's encoder). The studios are phasing Dolby TrueHD encodes out re: Blu-ray. Right now > 50% of all Blu-ray is DTS-HD Master Audio. You can check out the stats
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Follow Ups
- something to check - Joe Murphy Jr 06/10/1016:28:54 06/10/10 (1)
- Thanks - eac3to automatically disables DN - now I know why! - Christine Tham 21:02:20 06/10/10 (0)