I’m not sure which mix is better, but I want the original mix if possible. Some variant of it that doesn’t include the new sound effects.
Oddly enough, my rip of Batman (1989) has two Dolby Digital mixes. One of them says Dolby Surround EX (which means it has that matrixed center back channel. Considering the other doesn’t, it makes me wonder if these are different in anyway such as having the original sound effects vs no original sound effects. The file sizes are different too, so I’m wondering if one of these two is the original AC3 mix on my 4K disc.
Ripped this from the 4-movie 4K set:
Audio #2
ID : 3
ID in the original source medium : 4352 (0x1100)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Format settings : Dolby Surround EX
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2 h 6 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 578 MiB (1%)
Title : Surround 5.1
Language : English
Original source medium : Blu-ray
Dialog Normalization : -27 dB
compr : 0.53 dB
dynrng : 0.27 dB
cmixlev : -3.0 dB
surmixlev : -3 dB
dmixmod : Lt/Rt
ltrtcmixlev : -3.0 dB
ltrtsurmixlev : -3.0 dB
lorocmixlev : -3.0 dB
lorosurmixlev : -3.0 dB
dialnorm_Average : -27 dB
dialnorm_Minimum : -27 dB
dialnorm_Maximum : -27 dB
Audio #3
ID : 4
ID in the original source medium : 4353 (0x1101)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2 h 6 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 405 MiB (0%)
Title : Surround 5.1
Language : English
Original source medium : Blu-ray
Dialog Normalization : -27 dB
compr : 0.53 dB
cmixlev : -3.0 dB
surmixlev : -3 dB
mixlevel : 283 dB
roomtyp : 3
ltrtcmixlev : -3.0 dB
ltrtsurmixlev : -3.0 dB
lorocmixlev : -3.0 dB
lorosurmixlev : -4.5 dB
dialnorm_Average : -27 dB
dialnorm_Minimum : -27 dB
dialnorm_Maximum : -27 dB
If not, can anyone point me to a release I should buy instead? Blu-ray, DVD, etc. I can’t afford the LD. No ripping tech, unless you send me that mix. All I want is the preferred audio track to these movies.