Pretty much but with a few caveats. If you also need want to mux in the lossless Atmos track into the TS container, you cannot go straight from the mkv file. You have to extract the atmos track from the mkv and add in an ac3 core with eac3to (not sure if this is a limitation of tsmuxer or the TS container spec in general). Just to summarize, here is a breakdown of the old existing workflow vs the new one one made possible by MakeMKV v1.15.1 for creating a DV + Atmos TS file that can be played on the 2019 Shield.cipher wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:02 amGood idea. The original thread had numerous posts of people using the wrong tool, tool version or processes which was leading to confusion every time one of these incorrect posts was added.
Given we're looking at a new approach, can someone confirm if the following is the current workflow for creating a DV file that can be played on our TV's:
1) Using MakeMKV, create an MKV file from the UHD disc (I'm assuming there is no need to first create the full disc anymore)
2) Remux the .MKV file to a .TS file using a specific version of Tsmuxer (this step is still a bit iffy to me, maybe shawnc22 can chime in with his steps)
3) Play the TS file directly off a storage device (eg USB Drive) connected to your DV TV or use a DV Supported streaming device like the Shield 2019 to play it via software like Plex.
I'm also assuming that this opens the possibility for software like Plex to add the ability for us to be able to play our DV based MKV's without having to convert them to TS first?
Old Method:
1) Create full decrypted folder backup using MakeMKV.
2) Extract BL and EL+RPU video tracks from main feature MPLS file using tsmuxer, eac3to, or ffmpeg.
3) Combine video tracks from previous step into a single track dual layer (BL+EL+RPU) file using yusecope's tool.
4) Add the new combined video track and the same MPLS file used in step 2) to tsmuxer (latest nightly version should work), uncheck the original separate video tracks, leave the Atmos audio track and any additional audio tracks you want to keep checked and then mux.
New possible method:
1) Create MKV backup using v1.15.1 of MakeMKV.
2) Extract and convert atmos track from MKV to thd+ac3 format using eac3to.
3) Add MKV and the extracted thd+ac3 atmos audio track to tsmuxer and mux.
Edit: If you choose to go with the full decrypted backup as the first step, you can still make use of the new mkv as a replacement for steps 2 and 3 in the original method. The video track in the mkv should now be the same as the result of yusecope's method.
If your final goal is a DV+Atmos TS file, both methods should lead you to the same result, and it's really just up to you on which archival method you prefer (full folder vs mkv). Hopefully playback softwares can develop support soon for the DV metainfo now kept in mkvs, and we can just do everything in one step