This is what I tried:>Use MKVToolNix to seperate the DTS-HD MA audio track from the rest>Convert .m4a to FLAC using GNOME Sound Converter>Use MKVToolNix to re-insert the newly encoded FLAC file to the rest of the tracksAs far as I know, doing it this way yields good results. But am I wrong?, is there a better method to doing this?.
ffmpeg?
>>103165667I'm a smoothbrain so I really have no clue how to utilize ffmpeg properly, especially for a task like this.
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v copy -c:a flac output.mkvtinker with settings
>>103165733With some research I used this command. ffmpeg -i earthsea.mka -c:v copy -c:a flac -map 0 -c:s copy output.flac
>>103165771ffmpeg -i earthsea.mka -c:a flac output.flac
Can't you just skip extracting the DTS audio stream and just get ffmpeg to read it from the file you have, convert it to FLAC and then remux said track into a new file? It seems like an extra step is being added here..
>>103165800This is the best way to re-encode a 5.1 DTS-HD MA track to FLAC?.
>>103165843The film in question has multiple audio tracks, I just figure it would be easier to separate everything with MKVToolNix.
>>103165843nvm, I should read the thread >>103165733
>>103165800I've been doing some tests, and in one case the bitrate of the original DTS ES XLL audio is 4302 kb/s while the FLAC encode is only 3727 kb/s. Is this because quality was lost, or because it compresses better?.
>>103166366https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression
