Just finished syncing the Cinema DTS audio to the official Blu-ray release.

Since I don’t have any experience yet when it comes to visual syncing, I used the DTS 2.0 audio, which is provided by the Blu-ray instead as reference and speeded it up to 24 fps with eac3to so it nominally matches the speed of the Cinema DTS files.

It’s very interesting that the different parts of the soundtrack (AUD) are actually overlapping with some announcement on one channel that the reel is going to be switched.

I decoded the AUD files with foobar and an ATP-X100 decoder which compared to the Winamp plugin, has the advantage to provide 5.1 “out of the box”, thus it apparently generates the LFE channel and hopefully also applies the proper level adjustments according to the DTS standard.

I haven’t compared this decoder’s output with that of Winamp yet but it sounds fine so far.

It’s quite nutty that Hackers comes in stereo only on LaserDisc and the recent Blu-ray, having such a movie predestined for a 5.1 release.