Audio Only Encode - Leave Video Alone

[Deleted User 699]

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Is there a way to encode audio only (from DTS-HD to DD5.1) and leave the video content alone, so I can end up with an MKV file with DD5.1? (For Sonos compatibility)

[rollin_eng]

Not with HB

[akyhne]

I use eac3to. It's a command line tool and there are GUI tools that works with it, they just sucks.

I just have some batch files, named like "Batch - DTS to AC3.bat".
The code will look something like:

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eac3to.exe "D:\Video\Source.dts" "D:\Video\Destination.ac3"

or...

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eac3to.exe "D:\Video\Source.mkv" 2: "D:\Video\Destination.ac3"

to extract the audio track (2) directly from source video, provided the audio is second stream. Use MediaInfo to tell you.
or..

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eac3to.exe "D:\Video\Source.dtshd" "D:\Video\Destination.ac3" -640

to provide a new sample rate.
It's however not all cases where you can provide the video file directly, but have to extract the audio first. In that case, use a demuxer to extract the audio.

There are options you can/have to give in some cases, like down mix from 7.1 to 5.1

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eac3to.exe "D:\Video\Source.dts" "D:\Video\Destination.ac3" -down6

or... extract the tracks to .wave format, so that you can use another .wave editor to create your own file formats:

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eac3to.exe "D:\Video\Source.m2ts" "D:\Video\Destination.wavs"

The easiest, is to just put your batch files in the folder of eac3to, where eac3to.exe is.



Batch example:

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eac3to.exe "D:\Video\Source.dtshd" "D:\Video\Destination.ac3" -down6 -640  -logdts

Creates a destination ac3 audio file (DD5.1) mixed down to 5.1 at 640Kb/s and creates a log file.
After that, use a remuxer to create a new file with audio and video. E.g. "MKVToolnix GUI" for .mkv files, "My MP4Box GUI" for .mp4.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Eac3to/How_to_Use
https://www.videohelp.com/software/eac3to