Been trying to capture the DTS from the Japanese LD for “Hard Target”.
First recorded a minute of test audio from coaxial on a Pioneer X9 at 44.1 kHz, 16 bit wav using Sound Forge. BeSplit v0.9b6 had no trouble converting it with the following command:
BeSplit -core( -input c:\test16bit.wav -output H:\test16bit.dts -type dtswav -fix )I then split the test16bit.dts file into 5 wav files using eac3to, and they all played fine without any distortion or anything. So far so good…
I went and captured the whole movie (settings unchanged), but when I tried to convert it to DTS, BeSplit stopped converting at about 45 minutes in (a few minutes before the side change). When trying to convert to 5 wav files, eac3to gave me this error:
This track is not clean.
libDcaDec reported the error “Invalid bitstream format”.
Aborted at file position 45350912.I also tried converting the .wav to .dts using DTS Parser, but it stopped only about 10 minutes in (eac3to was able to convert this .dts file to 5 wavs, however).
Tried recording some tests at 24 bit and 32 bit float, and also tried recording using Audacity, but BeSplit wouldn’t convert any of these.
Anyone have any clues at to what could be wrong?
The issue your having is likely due to the differences in the frame headers for DTS on Laserdisc vs. DTS on DVD or BD.
Basically, you’ll need to run your wav through DTS parser, then correct the frame headers using a hex editor. After that you should have no problem decoding. This of course assumes you don’t have any ripping errors in the original file.
More detailed directions here:
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/SUCCESS-Bit-Perfect-Audio-Capture/id/15988/page/1#707482