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Convert audio, but only DTS to AAC/AC3 plugin still missing #400

Open azche24 opened 8 months ago

azche24 commented 8 months ago

What is your new plugin request?

Audio conversion does not help much in a video library. Except for compatibility/container reasons (which is already covered by a dozen of plugins). And to reduce size significantly, if there are DTS/HD audio streams in the original. Which is especially annoying, if there are DTS sources in stereo (!) consuming up to 1500 kbps in the file, where normally 2x64=128 kbps should be ok for most listeners. In the moment there is no plugin, processing ONLY, but ALL these spcace-consuming DTS streams.

There already is: a) Audio Surround to AC3 Author: Josh.5, EdBaynes Version: 0.0.1 b) Convert multichannel audio to aac or ac3 Author: yajrendrag Version: 0.0.1

a) covers everything (even AAC, which is unwanted in most cases and does not make sense but for compatibility reasons). Also it throws errors, if trying to encode the (very common) older files in H.264/AAC, if video does not compress well and audio is getting bigger while being transcoded to AC3. And b) is almost perfect for removing DTS streams. But both do not cover 2 channel stereo streams, which are pretty common in older movies. So why not extend b) to covering EVERY DTS stream, which should be possible, as the original audio plugins by Josh.5 can easily handle stereo streams and convert them to 2x64 kbps and the multi-channel streams to <640 kbps?

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yajrendrag commented 7 months ago

not sure exactly what you are suggesting - in addition to (b), there is also convert_multichan_audio_to_2ch, which will convert all multichannel (>4) streams to 2 channel aac or libfdk_aac. (i can easily add ac3 to that).. but i can't tell if you are asking to convert 2 channel DTS - if so, i wouldn't have thought that is something that even exists..

azche24 commented 7 months ago

I‘m suggesting exactly this: << but i can't tell if you are asking to convert 2 channel DTS - if so, i wouldn't have thought that is something that even exists..>> There is lots of 2 channel and even 1 channel DTS files out there, mostly older movies, where someone wanted to keep as much of the historic mono/stereo sound as possible.

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Am 09.04.2024 um 21:57 schrieb jay gardner @.***>:

 not sure exactly what you are suggesting - in addition to (b), there is also convert_multichan_audio_to_2ch, which will convert all multichannel (>4) streams to 2 channel aac or libfdk_aac. (i can easily add ac3 to that).. but i can't tell if you are asking to convert 2 channel DTS - if so, i wouldn't have thought that is something that even exists..

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