I can’t start to explain how irritating it is to have HD movies not play on my tv because the audio codec is not supported. It is beyond me why devices such as my Xbox360, PS3, and my LG5000 tv don’t come with DTS support. Some of my HD material is downloaded and it wouldn’t be fair to blame the uploaders for not adding an AC3 audio track. There are two schools of thought to overcome this codec problem:
- Transcoding
- Recoding
Transcoding is changing the codec realtime, during playback. It is a really cool option especially if you want to stream the video files. I have not gotten it to work though. I tried the following applications without success, but you may have the glory of getting it to work. It is defiantly worth considering. Anyway you should try the following aplications:
Since none of the applications really worked out too well I decided it was just better to convert the videos with codecs which were supported by my devices (mainly my LG5000 which doesn’t support DTS). One pretty universal codec seemed to be AC3. In Ubuntu there seem to be various ways to transcode your videos, you can use scripts, terminal applications like ffmpeg, or applications. I tried the oh so glorious scripts, and ffmpeg. Every time something went wrong or something was missing. It nearly broke me down to tears. My last resort after trying streaming applications, scripts, and terminals was to use applications.
Then finally I was saved by a single user who made this epic post:
You need an application called Avidemux! Once installed all you need to do to convert a mkv HD movie, with a DTS audio track, to a HD movie with a AC3 track are the following steps:
- [in a terminal] “sudo apt-get install Avidemux”
- Menu > Video > Avidemux
- File > Open > YourVideo.mkv
- On the left side, VideoMode – Copy
- On the left side, AudioMode – AC3
- On the left side, Format – MKV
- File > Save > Select your location where you want the new video to be saved.
- Wait a fair bit
- ????
- Profit
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4 Comments
sukeltje
Posted on: February 16th, 2010 at 15:17
Thank you so much for this!
i just couldnt get my movies to convert right and already gave up untill i came across this
Mike
Posted on: May 7th, 2010 at 09:39
Does this preserve surround sound in ac3, or downmix to stereo?
I’d like to convert the trueHD in BD rips to 5.1 DD/AC3 .
I cant tell you for sure, but i think there are two AC3 settings one for downmix and one for orginal. I cant tell you for sure. I suggest you have a go with it. It is a good piece of software
Nick
Posted on: July 15th, 2010 at 04:01
Thank you god! I’ve been looking everywhere for this and am more than ready for step 10. Profit. Installing now and getting ready warm up the dual-core. I don’t think I’ve transcoded video on this computer since I had XP oh so long ago…
Playing mkv’s from an external 1.5 TB on a Samsung UN46B6000, in case you were wondering. And 1080p DTS Avatar didn’t have sound, which is what got me here!
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