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- Tue Oct 14, 2025 4:33 pm
- Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
- Topic: Am I processing my rips correctly?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 783
Re: Am I processing my rips correctly?
I don't think FLAC keeps any positional audio data like Dolby Atmos. I only have a basic home setup, so don't benefit from Atmos anyway. I still keep the track in case I end up upgrading a few decades from now, or bring my rip to someone else's house with a fancier system. Mono and stereo FLAC are ...
- Tue Oct 14, 2025 3:53 pm
- Forum: MKV file processing and playback
- Topic: Forced subtitles
- Replies: 96
- Views: 56000
Re: Forced subtitles
I looked into the audio codecs that Dolby and DTS have to offer…. Not sure what this has to do with the topic, but yeah, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X aren't codecs, but rather metadata upon an existing stream. Atmos will usually be carried in a TrueHD stream, but there are a disc or two which have Atmos u...
- Tue Oct 14, 2025 3:18 pm
- Forum: Blu-ray discs
- Topic: Can't read Blu ray discs at all
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2151
- Wed Oct 08, 2025 4:21 pm
- Forum: MKV file processing and playback
- Topic: Does using MKVtoolnix in any way alter or damage the file?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9078
Re: Does using MKVtoolnix in any way alter or damage the file?
For some reason, it trims leading and trailing spaces from SRT subtitles, which MakeMKV writes when converting closed captions to subtitles. I don't particularly mind, although it is strange. Other than that, I haven't had any issues (I don't watch HDR stuff, so I can't speak to any issues there); I...
- Mon Oct 06, 2025 8:54 pm
- Forum: MKV file processing and playback
- Topic: TrueHD seamless branching audio dropouts still a thing?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7925
Re: TrueHD seamless branching audio dropouts still a thing?
Out of curiosity, do the TrueHD issues with "seamless branching" affect the AC3 fallback "core" in any regard? I don't have an Atmos or even 7.1 setup, so I'm fine with downgrading to the AC3 fallback if necessary. (I haven't ripped any multi-M2TS TrueHD discs yet, and googling i...
- Sun Oct 05, 2025 2:51 pm
- Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
- Topic: Has Makemkv got any better when ripping TV series
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4289
Re: Has Makemkv got any better when ripping TV series
Additionally, I've found that when making MKVs from discs, the playlists are sometimes read out of order (presumably something to do with how the disc is structured?), but when making MKVs from a (decrypted) backup, the playlists are always read in numerical order. I do still cross-check the episode...
- Tue Sep 30, 2025 9:02 pm
- Forum: DVD discs
- Topic: MakeMKV ripping a DVD episode in the wrong aspect ratio
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12603
Re: MakeMKV ripping a DVD episode in the wrong aspect ratio
You can fix the aspect ratio metadata after ripping; I had to do that for some standard definition bonus features from the 2012 Indiana Jones Blu-ray. For 4:3 videos, just changing the display width to 640 in mkvtoolnix should work correctly. For 16:9 videos, the math isn't quite perfect if you do t...
- Thu Sep 25, 2025 6:32 pm
- Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
- Topic: Are backups worth it in the long run?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12836
Re: Are backups worth it in the long run?
I'd keep full disc backups of all my discs if I could, but I "only" have 4 TB. I keep unprocessed MKVs of a few works that I think meaningfully suffer from being decompressed (mainly anime; I can get live action stuff looking great down to 8-10% the size, but 2D animated stuff suffers even...
- Fri Sep 19, 2025 10:33 pm
- Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
- Topic: Preferences explained somewhere?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7775
Re: Preferences explained somewhere?
Thanks for all the answers and suggestions @SirYodaJedi Manual you can set ONE default language, but not TWO As a non native english speaker I surely like to get my own language, but often you only get best Audiotrack, if you chose English Thats why I would like to set 2 default languages See https...
- Wed Sep 17, 2025 10:48 pm
- Forum: Advanced MakeMKV usage
- Topic: Change Default Naming of Tracks
- Replies: 9
- Views: 53312
Re: Change Default Naming of Tracks
+1 for a naming rule (also bump). Like Cipher, I always name tracks based upon what codec they use because VLC doesn't show this info; it's annoying to have to change from the generic "Surround 7.1"/"Stereo"/etc to "Dolby TrueHD Atmos"/"DTS-HD MA 5.1"/"Do...
- Wed Sep 17, 2025 4:25 pm
- Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
- Topic: Preferences explained somewhere?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7775
Re: Preferences explained somewhere?
when will i use a different profile than default AAC, FLAC (i saw it converts in this case the audio) WDTV AAC and FLAC profiles compress the audio, and can slow things down if copying directly from disc. I also personally wouldn't recommend them for non-stereo sources, due to various reasons. WDTV...
- Thu Sep 04, 2025 2:55 pm
- Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
- Topic: Multiple Audio Tracks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7310
Re: Multiple Audio Tracks
M, yeah, in that situation it'd make sense to extract the core while doing initial backup. I watch local offline files, so I just do a quick remux if I need to toss the lossless extension (it's fast on an internal SSD).
- Sat Aug 16, 2025 4:22 pm
- Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
- Topic: Best software to shrink mkv
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4852
- Fri Aug 15, 2025 5:39 pm
- Forum: DVD discs
- Topic: DTS 6.1 Tracks automatically being downmixed to 5.1
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9574
Re: DTS 6.1 Tracks automatically being downmixed to 5.1
IME (last checked a few months before OP), it doesn't actually convert them; it just writes the wrong metadata because it doesn't recognize DTS-ES Discrete. From my testing, if you use MKVExtract to extract the DTS stream from the MKV, then MKVToolNix-GUI to re-insert the extracted stream, the track...
- Thu Aug 14, 2025 4:47 pm
- Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
- Topic: Multiple Audio Tracks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7310
Re: Multiple Audio Tracks
Example: The 7.1 stream is DTS:X and the playback device supports only Dolby or supports plain DTS but not DTS:X. Having a fallback can be helpful in those situations. Due to how DTS-HD and DTS-X are encoded, you don't need to rip the core separately; the audio stream includes the core, and any pla...