Darth Editous said:

My guess is that it would involve recording to a 48khz wav and renaming the file to ac3. Let me know if you have any pointers on how to start.

I can give you some, starting with "it's not quite that simple" ;)

The first time I captured raw AC3, that is how I did it - you can then save the recorded wav as raw audio, but it will include padding - 0 byte sequences spacing out the real AC3 frames, because an AC3 track doesn't fill a PCM track.

You may also find that the recording skips sometimes, and AC3 frames may get chopped in half, and so on... last time I did a capture I bodged together a program that recorded and validated the AC3 stream as it captured, so if it went wrong it would tell me and I could start again.

For capture, ideally I think it works best using a separate optical/USB box, so you know there's no messing around that can occur with a full soundcard.

I'm sure someone out there still has my AC3 files - and if they don't, I'll probably capture them again one day.

Once you've got the AC3 frames packed together in the file, you can just join the files together and they should decode okay.

DE

I have 1 set of your files but I don't know if it's the first set or the fixed set.