Working with HDDVD - Dolby Digital Plus

[DigitalFool]

I'm starting to go through my HDDVD collection after doing a few Blu-ray movies successfully. The guide given in the Tiki Bar has been great, but I was hoping for a little clarification because I am an audio noob.

Basically, I've been using Clown_BD (eac3to/tsmuxer) with the option of unconverted for the audio format. The HDDVD has an E-AC3 (Dolby Digital Plus) audio track when left unconverted (as a .wav/.w64 file) and remuxed, Handbrake (Windows GUI svn2592) fails because it isn't able to locate the audio track.

I've gone back to Clown_BD with the option of AC3 (640) and then using AC3 passthrough in Handbrake and it works great.

I guess in all of this, my question is, am I getting the best audio from this HDDVD?

dF

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### Windows GUI svn2592 2009062101 
### Running: Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 
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### CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9550  @ 2.83GHz 
### Ram: 4060 MB 
### Screen: 1920x1080 
### Temp Dir: C:\Users\administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\ 
### Install Dir: C:\Program Files (x86)\HandBrake 
### Data Dir: C:\Users\administrator\AppData\Roaming\HandBrake\HandBrake\0.9.3.5 
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[22:09:23] hb_init: checking cpu count
[22:09:23] hb_init: starting libhb thread
HandBrake svn2592 (2009062101) - MinGW i386 - http://handbrake.fr
4 CPUs detected
Opening C:\Remux\Demux.M2TS...
[22:09:23] hb_scan: path=C:\Remux\Demux.M2TS, title_index=0
[22:09:23] scan: trying to open with libdvdread
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
ERROR: dvd: ifoOpen failed
[22:09:23] file is MPEG Transport Stream with 192 byte packets offset 4 bytes
[22:09:23] hb_ts_stream_find_pids - found the following PIDS
[22:09:23]     Video PIDS : 
[22:09:23]       0x1011 type VC1 (0xea)
[22:09:23]     Audio PIDS : 
[22:09:23]       0x1100 type DigiCipher II Video (0x80)
[22:09:23]       0x1200 type Unknown (0x90)
[22:09:26] transport stream pid 0x1100 (type 0x80, substream 0xbd) isn't audio
[22:09:27] transport stream pid 0x1200 (type 0x90) isn't audio
[22:09:27] scan: decoding previews for title 1
Scanning title 1 of 1...
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[22:09:29] scan: 10 previews, 1920x1080, 23.976 fps, autocrop = 128/136/0/0, aspect 16:9, PAR 1:1
[22:09:29] scan: title (0) job->width:1920, job->height:816
[22:09:29] stream: 4 good frames, 0 errors (0%)
[22:09:29] libhb: scan thread found 1 valid title(s)
+ title 1:
  + vts 0, ttn 0, cells 0->0 (0 blocks)
  + duration: 01:45:25
  + size: 1920x1080, pixel aspect: 1/1, display aspect: 1.78, 23.976 fps
  + autocrop: 128/136/0/0
  + chapters:
    + 1: cells 0->0, 0 blocks, duration 01:45:25
  + audio tracks:
  + subtitle tracks:
HandBrake has exited.

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[nightstrm]

Yes, this is your best option with HD-DVD discs that do not include a standard AC3 soundtrack. Bluray movies tend to work very nicely as the TrueHD track has AC3 information stored within it that Handbrake recognizes and uses.