AC3 to FLAC?

sdamaged99 · **AC3 to FLAC? -** 04-09-2011, 00:16 | posts: 1,912 | Location: Isle of Man

I've just bought the re released version of my favourite album ever, and the 2nd disc is a DVD with the entire album in Dolby Digital

I would like to be able to rip the tracks into a lossless format and for (XBMC) to simply play them back as 6 channel tracks

Could you let me know if this is possible, and if so, how would i do it?

thanks very much

Redemption80 · 04-09-2011, 00:31 | posts: 13,412 | Location: Glasgow

Why though, XBMC can playback raw AC3 streams, not sure if it works in the Music player side of things as these days i use MediaPortal, but i don't see why it shouldn't be able to.

DVD AC3 is 448kbps for 6 channels, so less than 75k per channel, so in no way lossless, not trying to be snidey, just seems a waste when you you just rip and playback the original file.

Anyway, when i rip DVDs or BluRay's, this is the software i use.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/eac3to

sdamaged99 · 04-09-2011, 00:42 | posts: 1,912 | Location: Isle of Man

The reason is because i would like to be able to pick the track i want, rather than mount the DVD image, go through the menu and pick the song that way - FLAC just seemed the easiest format to use, i appreciate the original format isn't lossless though

Do you see what i mean?

thanks

Redemption80 · 04-09-2011, 01:36 | posts: 13,412 | Location: Glasgow

Yeah, that i do, not ideal sound quality wise, but not much in the way of choice if you want them split.

Unless anything has changed recently, eac3to should be able to do what you want.

JaylumX · **Memory**: 8GB Corsair DDR3 8-8-8-24

You could just demux the audio tracks. There is no transcoding is required (integreity is maintained) and you can select the AC3 file you require from whatever GUI (after renaming it of course)

Example Linkage

The trick is to demux the the Ac3 file and for me the easiest way is the method above. If you are really desperate to convert to flac the just use Foobar, Ac3 DSP and the flac Encoder plugin

happygirlbaby · 05-31-2012, 02:12 | posts: 1

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Tranzmit · 06-08-2012, 02:10 | posts: 162 | Location: Australia

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