Ripping Dolby Atmos into MKV

[SamuriHL]

Yea, it's the 7.1 TrueHD track. It contains the ATMOS extensions. And as mentioned, mediainfo usually can tell you, as well.

[cipher]

Phew, I just noticed this issue on my Zootopia and Frozen II copies and was trying to figure out if it was a software issue (MakeMKV or MKVTOOLNX) or hardware issue (Denon receiver, Shield Streamer etc). I wish I had noticed it earlier as I'm now wondering how many titles are affected.

A couple of questions after reading through this thread:
1) Why does this seem to happen largely or exclusively on Disney discs? Given the prevalence of Dolby Atmos why isn't this being reported in larger numbers on other non-Disney titles?
2) Does this issue only occur on UHD discs with Dolby Atmos or are Blu-rays with Dolby Atmos also seeing this issue?

[SamuriHL]

Disney loves to seamless branch their titles and use high bitrate ATMOS tracks (god bless them) which tends to contribute to this issue. And here's the thing, even if you don't see the symptoms of this issue on other titles, it's technically there. It has to do with how ATMOS frames are put into an MKV container.

[cipher]

Disney loves to seamless branch their titles and use high bitrate ATMOS tracks (god bless them) which tends to contribute to this issue. And here's the thing, even if you don't see the symptoms of this issue on other titles, it's technically there. It has to do with how ATMOS frames are put into an MKV container.

Thanks for the explanation, SamuriHL.

It doesn't sound like we'll be able to retroactively fix our MKV's by running them through another remux when a fix is rolled out so we're likely looking at remuxing from the discs again. Also, given the reason for the issue I'm assuming this is also occurring on Blu-ray's that contain an Atmos track and not just on UHD's.

[SamuriHL]

I'd guess that's likely on BD's but I don't know since I've not tested any. Yes, when this was fixed in CloneBD I went back and re-ripped all my ATMOS titles. Yes, that's a pain on the ass. But for me, I want to make sure I have the best quality MKV's on my NAS so it was worth the effort. My current ripping process is to create unprotected folder backups with MakeMKV and then process that with CloneBD to create the MKV's. This has been working for every disc I've thrown at it.

[mike admin]

This is (supposedly) fixed in 1.15.1

[SamuriHL]

Fantastic! That's going to make a lot of people happy for sure. A good one to test on is Incredibles 2. Will try to get to it later today if no one else has gotten to it yet.

[spl147]

This is (supposedly) fixed in 1.15.1

will the fix work on already processed mkv's? or do we need to re rip the disc?

[Woodstock]

What's processed is processed - this would be for ripping either from a disk or a backup.

[mike admin]

What's processed is processed - this would be for ripping either from a disk or a backup.

This is unfortunately correct. MakeMKV was (rarely, but still) dropping wrong audio frames on segment boundaries, so MKV files are bad (with clicks on scene change) but backups are good.

[jayper]

This is phenomenal news. I have some backups handy that I can test with. Thanks so much, Mike!

EDIT: I just generated a new MKV for a title that I had previously had dropout issues with and things seem to be all good!

[cipher]

This is (supposedly) fixed in 1.15.1

That's great news, Mike!

[mike admin]

1) Why does this seem to happen largely or exclusively on Disney discs? Given the prevalence of Dolby Atmos why isn't this being reported in larger numbers on other non-Disney titles?

I can speak about particular MakeMKV bug that was causing this - the frame loss was caused by a specific (very unusual) sync frame configuration at the start of a seamless segment. Shame is that MakeMKV had a code to explicitly handle this scenario - only the code was buggy
So It could be very well that this sync frame configuration is just a disney "feature"

[SamuriHL]

Thanks for the explanation and the fix. This is really great news as atmos has really become the standard these days.

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[spl147]

Is there a list of affected titles?