DTS-MA to FLAC fails in 1.9.0 for some titles

[TheShoe]

Hi all -

I've converted many DTS-MA tracks to FLAC successfully except for the following so far:

Band of Brothers (all episodes)
Led Zeppelin Celebration Day

...

I'm sure I'll find more.

Has anyone else encountered this?

Here's the debug code I see:

DEBUG: Code 356 at `?a-K5{`fCno#?y[:121265522
DEBUG: Code 1 at IU0dy!-B_nD66*X/0E:213136654
DEBUG: Code 0 at IU0dy!-B_nD66*X/0E:29400669

This is using the OSX v1.9.0 version on Mavericks.

[The Masked Onion]

Send a test dump of both discs to makemkv support. /onlinehelp/testdump.html

[TheShoe]

Here's the link to the dump file:

[downloaded]

[TheShoe]

Any thoughts on this?

Curious if the dump file helped at all....

[mike admin]

Thanks for sending the dumps, and I do apologize for the long response time. This is a bug in MakeMKV, but the bug is a "user interface" bug. If you look at the detailed log file (as written by MakeMKV), you will actually see the reason for the error:

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DTS001: Using dtsdecoderdll.dll version 1.1.0.1@2009/02/11 from /Users/xxx/decoders/dtsdecoderdll.dll
DTS001: Launching /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/MacOS/mmdtsdec
DTS001: MakeMKV DTS-HD decoder v1.9.0 darwin(x86-release)
DTS001: DLL: Channels=6 Bits=16 Rate=48000 Mask=f/60f
DTS001: DLL: Using DLL version 1.1.0.1@2009/02/11 from /Users/xxx/decoders/dtsdecoderdll.dll
DTS001: DLL: This stream can't be properly decoded by this DLL, please use dtsdecoderdll v1.1.0.5 or later.
DTS001: DEBUG: code=00000000 src=;OR4-Bg5pL_0Jvo|:121263452
DTS001: Error: Failed to decode

The text at /dtshd/ states that any version of dtsdecoderdll works fine. This turned out not to be the case, as for certain 16-bit DTS-HD streams a recent version of the decoding DLL is required. All you need it to get a version of dtsdecoderdll.dll that is less than 5 years old . Specifically, version 1.0.0.8 is popular and easy to acquire.

The next version of MakeMKV will produce clear error message. Once again, sorry for the long response time.

[Woodstock]

Mike, when you update the dtshd page, you probably should remove references to Arcsoft TMT, since it is no longer available.

[TheShoe]

Doh! Missed that in the logs. Thanks much

Also - you meant v1.1.0.8 i assume

[TheShoe]

given I've been using a pretty old version, is it worth re-converting the DTSMA tracks to FLAC again?

have no idea the change-log from 1.1.0.1 to 1.1.0.8, but clearly there have been changes!

[Romansh]

given I've been using a pretty old version, is it worth re-converting the DTSMA tracks to FLAC again?

have no idea the change-log from 1.1.0.1 to 1.1.0.8, but clearly there have been changes!

It's either lossless or it isn't, so no need to re-convert the tracks that were already successfully converted.