Why does MakeMKV fail converting Star wars to FLAC?

[marcusj0015]

While converting Star Wars, the original trilogy from blu-ray to MKV, the audio either doesn't work or has massive "changes" like it sounds too deep, like it's changed the values of the audio, it's been awhile since I've attempted converting it.

[marcusj0015]

Add Armageddon to that list, except there is NO SOUND at all.

[Romansh]

I had no trouble myself with any of the 6 Star Wars movies, but converting to raw LPCM (using Arcsoft DLL v1.1.0.8, which produces garbage for 6.1 sources with eac3to, but works fine via mmdtsdec).

Note that FLAC with more than 6 channels is not always supported correctly - are you sure it's not just a playback problem?

[marcusj0015]

No, I tried both VLC and WMP with flac codecs installed and other movies have worked just fine, and I'm using the arcsoft 1.1.0.8 dll as well, I don't mess around with the channel alignment.

[Romansh]

Perhaps the MakeMKV debug log will tell us more? Enable "Log debug messages" in MakeMKV General options, try it on one of the movies again, and post the debug log (from the .txt file, it has more info than what shows up in the MakeMKV console (not sure where the location of that file is under Windows).

[marcusj0015]

KK, I'll try to dig up the log files

[marcusj0015]

Where does MakeMKV save it's logs, because The Big Lebowski doesn't play any damn sound either.

[Woodstock]

When you start MakeMKV with logging turned on, it will show you where the log is being saved to; for the Windows version, it is the second line of the log:

MakeMKV v1.7.10 win(x64-release) started
Debug logging enabled, log will be saved as C:\Users\XXXXX/MakeMKV_log.txt

[Romansh]

http://www.makemkv.com/faq/item/8/catid/6

It only saves one log though (clears on re-launch), so you need to repeat the procedure.