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I'm having a discussion over at the WDTV Live Forums. It appears the WDTV Live SMP is failing to bit stream 6.1 DTS-MA and is somehow detecting it as DTS-HRA. If remuxed into a M2TS container the files are detected as DTS-MA and play perfectly. I'd just like to make sure this can't be a problem with MakeMKV before I make an arse of myself.

How about ripping with DVDFab and muxing with MKVMerge to rule out it's an MakeMKV issue?

Or use mediainfo on MKV or M2TS, to see if it is MA or HRA stream. Please note that both are DTS-HD.

It IS DTS-MA, it says so on the case. MediaInfo says DTS-MA, but it may have a different way of detecting it than the WDTV, MKVMerge may just copy the info from the original file and TSMuxer may change it. I could try DVDFab + MKVMerge. I'm pretty sure it's a WDTV problem since it won't play 6.1 FLAC in an MKV at all, but it's an assumption that the issues are connected and I need to cover all my bases. It's just 6.1 in MKV, all other layouts work fine.

In case anyone is wondering, I ripped Blade into an MKV with DVDFab and it showed exactly the same problem. One thing we did learn was that the affected Blu-rays we had on hand all had DTS-ES cores which may be a factor. Currently the only way to view such movies on a WDTV Live SMP at anywhere near lossless quality is to re-encode the tracks to 16bit 7.1 FLAC using Eac3to (Or Remux them in M2TS files: but this is the MakeMKV forum!)