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Sad to say, if you are ripping to AC3 files, you'll be out of luck with MC.

I also don't think that MC can handle VOB files yet, although I've heard that it may be possible--folks who use it for video may be able to enlighten us better.

My only success with DVD-V/DVD-A discs and MC has been ripping the DTS audio tracks to a multi-channel WAV file, then using MC to manage the resulting WAVs.

Best,
Brad

How do you isolate the DTS audio track from the DVD-A disc?  Do you have to use DVD Shrink and just get the TS Audio file?  How do you convert it to wav? I haven't tried that yet....

I haven't tried DVDShrink yet. It's on my list to check out in the next couple of weeks as I move from .25TB to 1TB of storage.

The tool I used is called VOBrator. Check out doom9.org for details. It's the only one I know about that understands multi-channel DTS audio streams well enough to convert them to WAV. Other tools (I believe) only extract .dts files, which aren't useful to most people.

Once the DTS audio is WAV, you can either keep it as WAV files or convert it to a lossless compression system. If you use a lossy compression algorithm, you are throwing out parts of the already-compressed DTS bitstream.

What's implicit in this "intellectual" exercise is that we are not talking about true DVD-A, but rather the audio that is in the DVD-V format (which can be either on a DVD-V or DVD-A disc). The high resolution DVD-A format(s) cannot yet be ripped AFAIK.

How cool would it be to crossfade the audio AND video

Might come in handy for those video DJs...!

Best,
Brad

So you preserve DTS 5 channel music that way?  Does it still play back in multichannel as DTS?