DTS-HD HRA to FLAC

[duss909]

Greetings,

I tend to FLAC everything, but now I have one of those discs with "DTS-HD HRA" that FLAC profile isn’t working on. I am somewhat aware that “HRA” isn’t really “true lossless”.

From long ago, almost the days of Napoleon, I have a vague memory of reading how to have MakeMKV do also the flaccing of "DTS-HD HRA", but can’t seem to find anything while searching. Also, while trying to tinker with this myself, I noticed there isn’t any xml-profile-thingys anymore..?

If any of you savvy users have some pointers it would make me most happy.

Perhaps the attached images might help me explain what I am on about;
The first tiny image shows the naming at selection, "DTS-HD HRA". The second image shows the info-box of said selection, with profile FLAC but still the behaviour will be "copy as is". The last image is how the resulting audio is reported in MediaInfo. It did not FLAC. Sad!

Please halp..!

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[morbius]

The standard FLAC profile only has a subset of available conversion options. I added a few to mine to give more coverage, but I can't find the right syntax to make it work with DTS HRA. For example, the following is valid profile entry, but does not enable FLAC conversion for DTS HRA. I tried a few guesses but no luck.

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 <trackSettings input="DTSHDLBR-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="flac-fast"
                defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString,+sel:true">
        </output>
    </trackSettings>

[dcoke22]

Also, while trying to tinker with this myself, I noticed there isn’t any xml-profile-thingys anymore..?

Those are called Conversion Profiles: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4385 They live in your MakeMKV data directory, which can be found on the General tab of MakeMKV Preferences.

[morbius]

Scratch that, this is the one you want

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 <trackSettings input="DTSHD-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="flac-fast"
                defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString,+sel:true">
        </output>
    </trackSettings>

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[duss909]

I could not find any conversion profiles, but figured out that I could open appdata.tar with 7zip and in there I found them. I extracted one of the profiles to the directory @dcoke22 wrote about. Gave it a new profile name, and added the block of code @morbius wrote in comment #p106994.

et voilà!

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In my use case there is always less hassle with FLAC, and also, I shall admit, it does not hurt that FLAC is Variable rather than Constant which spare me a gigabyte here and there. I don't recall if it matters (much) to use "best/fast compression", but perhaps I will tinker with that one of these days.

Thank you gents very much for helping me.
Kisses, milk and honey all around.