
eac3to
A very good command line audio conversion tool. Third party GUIs are also available. Requires external audio decoders.
- can show information about audio, video, VOB/EVO/(M2)TS and MKV files
- can decode and encode various audio formats
- can remove dialog normalization from AC3, E-AC3, DTS and TrueHD tracks
- can extract AC3 stream from Blu-Ray TrueHD/AC3 tracks
- can extract TrueHD stream from Blu-Ray TrueHD/AC3 tracks
- can extract DTS core from DTS-HD tracks
- can remove DTS zero padding and repair outdated DTS-ES headers
- can apply positive or negative audio delays
- can reduce bitdepth of decoded audio data by using TPDF dithering
- can resample decoded audio data (using SSRC or r8brain)
- can apply/reverse PAL speedup on decoded audio data (SSRC/r8brain)
- can demux video / audio tracks of EVO/VOB/(M2)TS and MKV sources
- can list available titles of Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs
- can extract Blu-Ray and HD DVD chapter information and subtitles
- can mux MPEG2, VC-1 and h264 video tracks to Matroska
- can remove pulldown flags from MPEG2, VC-1 and h264 video tracks Supported source formats: (1) RAW, (L)PCM (2) WAV (PCM, DTS and AC3), W64, RF64 (3) AC3, E-AC3 (4) DTS, DTS-ES, DTS-96/24, DTS-HD Hi-Res, DTS-HD Master Audio (5) MP1, MP2, MP3 audio (6) AAC audio (7) MLP, TrueHD, TrueHD/AC3 (8) FLAC (9) EVO/VOB/(M2)TS and MKV Decoded audio data can be stored as / encoded to: (1) RAW, (L)PCM (2) WAV (PCM only), W64, RF64, AGM (3) WAVs (multiple mono WAV files, PCM only) (4) AC3 (5) DTS (6) AAC (7) FLAC
Required third party audio decoders:
For best AAC decoding you need: (1) Nero 7 (Nero 8 won't work!)
For DTS encoding you need: (1) SurCode DVD DTS - version 1.0.21 or newer
For AAC encoding you need: (1) Nero AAC Encoder For video muxing you need: (1) Haali Matroska Muxer