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jmone:
I have a few Videos with the awful 6.1 DTS-HD Audio Tracks (Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and Star Wars 1-6) that my Yami AVR does not like if MC's DSP is set to "Source # of Channels" (I end up with poorly matched channel mask and missing Dialogue for example). 

The "easy" solution is to set MC to always mix everything to 5.1 but this seems overkill for just 9 Videos out of 50K+ items

The other solution would be to set a Zone Switch rule something like:
- Channels = 7 --> Use Zone (mix to 5.1)
- Media Type = "Movie" --> Use Zone (mix to 5.1)

Couple of downsides:
- This would require me to setup and maintain a Zone and Rule on each PC just to handle 9 Videos
- I also have two "false positives" of MC reporting Channels = 7 (Update Library from Tags does not fix them and you can not edit the "Channels" field by hand)

Any other ideas on how best to handle just these few files?

Thanks
Nathan

RoderickGI:
Well 6.1 is pretty rare, and there aren't likely to be more created. Well, I hope not. It was a transient phase for the studios.

I would just convert those files to 5.1 or 7.1. If you are lucky, you should be able to just convert the audio, and leave the video untouched, depending on the tool you use.

I suspect you know more about converting videos than I do, so I shan't advise on what tool to use. ;D

blgentry:
I like Roderick's idea.  I recently converted a problematic movie's sound to a different format.  It's a weird case that has 4.1 audio, which MC could play.  I actually used MC itself to down sample it to 2.0.  When I had the resulting audio 2.0 track, I then used MKVToolnix (aka MKV Tools) to add that 2.0 sound stream as another selection for the video.  I made it the default so that it would get picked automatically.  But the 4.1 channel track is still there too if I ever want to use it.

My reasons for conversion were different, but this same technique sounds like it might fit your needs well.

Brian.

jmone:
Good Idea - trying it now....

fooze:
There is a quicker solution. Open windows explorer, highlight all the 6.1 files, then hold shift and press delete.

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