DVD Ripper 5.1 Dolby Digital

[Gunthermic]

Getting a little frustrated with trying to rip any movie and retain AC-3 and Stero into one file. No profile I have used to date does this from what I can see.

Loading these movies into iTunes/iPad/Apple TV 1 and 2

1. The audiocopy profiles do have correct Stereo and AC-3, however none of these profiles can encode into a m4v or mp4 file format that iTunes can use

2. If using iPhone.1080p.multichannel, or ipad.1080p.multichannel profiles to save into correct format, You get Mulitchannel, which plays on iTunes/Apple TV/iPad fine, but through a Apple TV all you get is Pro Logic II(multi channel support) The profiles are kinda misleading in that they say 5.1 Multichannel, but that is not what is pushed through Apple TV.

So has anyone ripped a movie that has 5.1 Dolby Digital that plays through iTunes etc or must we use other software to acomplish this.

Does anyone have a profile that works in this manner. I have tried to modifiy a profile that is audiocopy and tell it to create a mp4 file instead. Error 500. Doesn't work..

And yes the reciever does up to True HD 7.1, so it's not reciever problem.

[Gunthermic]

Anyone? Dev's? Is there no answer?

[David22]

Fix for 5.1 audio

If you look in your Program File\DVDFab 8\Profiles\Readme you will find a file called profile_document.xml which you can left click on and open with edit.

If you read it you will see that you can select 5.1 channel by having:

<device channel_ability="2" />

which supports multi-channel, and

<channels mode="4" />

which support 6 channels (i.e., 5.1), in you profile.



To get this to work, I was using the generic.mp4.h264.aac.xml profile to rip.

You can find it in Program File\DVDFab 8\Profiles

Again left click on file to open, and edit and/or add the above lines, and save.

Here is what my version of generic.mp4.h264.aac.xml looks like:

<profile name="generic.mp4.h264.aac" version="200" device="generic" tag="dvdfab" description="The profile is used to create mp4(h264 + aac) file, which can be played on PC or supported device.">
<common>
<file format="mp4" mode="0" onefile_size_mb="700" number="1" />
<device channel_ability="2" />
<audio copy="0" codec="aac" channel="2" >
<freq value="48000" list="8000,12000,24000,32000,44100,48000" />
<bitrate value="48000" list="32000,48000,64000,96000,128000" />
<volume percent="100" />
<channels mode="4" />
</audio>
<video>
<size list="" />
<subtitle mode="0" />
<encode codec="h264" fourcc="H264" bitrate_kbps="768" >
<mode value="real_time" list="real_time, high_quality" />
</encode>
</video>
</common>
<acodec name="faac">
<common profile="1" quality="100" />
</acodec>
<vcodec name="h264">
</vcodec>
</profile>

Now when I run MediaInfo on the ripped file it reports:

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 1h 59mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 164 MiB (16%)