Utility: SAGEAudioConvert, DTS to AC-3

[spacecadet]

Originally Posted by mikep

Hi,

New version will have an option to set the AC-3 stream as default. It will be available before the end of 2009.

Mikep

Hey Mikep, great tool! Just curious if the "default AC-3" feature had been added yet. Can't tell if it exist in the current version 0.1.13.

Cheers!

[mikep]

Originally Posted by spacecadet

Hey Mikep, great tool! Just curious if the "default AC-3" feature had been added yet. Can't tell if it exist in the current version 0.1.13.

Cheers!

Hi,

I did not added that feature in the last release... too busy right now . I will try to look at it with the NEXT release.

Mike

[spacecadet]

Originally Posted by mikep

Hi,

I did not added that feature in the last release... too busy right now . I will try to look at it with the NEXT release.

Mike

Thanks. Definitely looking forward to this feature add. Appreciate all your hard work!

[Lucas]

Mike,

Just tried to run the latest beta but I get a msg

"This beta as expired! Please download a new version"

Any ideas?

[dertb]

Originally Posted by Lucas

Mike,

Just tried to run the latest beta but I get a msg

"This beta as expired! Please download a new version"

Any ideas?

I am also getting the same error message with the older version.

Thoughts?

[mikep]

Originally Posted by dertb

I am also getting the same error message with the older version.

Thoughts?

Hi,

In about 2 hours I will post a new build, I am not at home right now... The new build will not have an expiration date.

Mike

[mikep]

New release availlable to remove the expiration date.

Mike

[Lucas]

Mike,

Thanks!

Works now.

[nebulink]

Anyway to make the new AC3 the default audio after it has been created?

[mikep]

Originally Posted by nebulink

Anyway to make the new AC3 the default audio after it has been created?

I just added this feature in 0.1.15 version, It is available for download now.

New switch -defAc3Lang=<value>

Example:
-defAc3Lang=en
will set the new english generated track as the default one. Any good mkv player should prefer the track that has his 'default' flag set.


Mike

[nebulink]

WOW! Now this is the best.

Thanks mikep!!!.

[spacecadet]

Originally Posted by mikep

I just added this feature in 0.1.15 version, It is available for download now.

New switch -defAc3Lang=<value>

Example:
-defAc3Lang=en
will set the new english generated track as the default one. Any good mkv player should prefer the track that has his 'default' flag set.


Mike

Anyone have luck with this? I just ran a test and it doesn't seem like Sage is respecting the default flag. Sage still plays the DTS track (track #1) by default. However, if I play the new file in VLC, I can see that it does play the AC-3 track by default. So, it seems like the file is correctly generated, just that Sage doesn't play it correctly.

I used this command:

SAGEAudioConvert -force -language=en -defAc3Lang=en Z:\myfiles

Any thoughts?

[hugenbdd]

Originally Posted by spacecadet

Anyone have luck with this? I just ran a test and it doesn't seem like Sage is respecting the default flag. Sage still plays the DTS track (track #1) by default. However, if I play the new file in VLC, I can see that it does play the AC-3 track by default. So, it seems like the file is correctly generated, just that Sage doesn't play it correctly.

I used this command:

SAGEAudioConvert -force -language=en -defAc3Lang=en Z:\myfiles

Any thoughts?

I tried it last night with a file that had "und" as the language. My HD200 used the first track for the audio. I will confirm what VLC plays tonight.

I think we may need to request a change from Sage to respect the default flag. I am using SageMC so not sure if maybe the change could be made there instead.

Dave

[nebulink]

Originally Posted by mikep

Any good mkv player should prefer the track that has his 'default' flag set.

Ooops! Where does this leave Sage since they apparently don't look at the default tag? lol

[jchong]

Thanks for this great tool - I can get it working from the command line but when I use it with SJQ v3 it fails. Here's a sample of my failed task log:

Tue Mar 23 23:55:12 EDT 2010: Starting task with priority 1/1/10
Executing command line: c:/sagetv/SAGEAudioConvert/SAGEAudioConvert.exe -workdir=v:/temp -language=en -inplace -kbps=640 -markdone -priority=low "T:\videos\Gladiator\Gladiator.mkv"

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.IOException: The handle is invalid.
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.Console.GetBufferInfo(Boolean throwOnNoConsole, Boolean& succeeded)
   at System.Console.get_CursorTop()
   at DESIKE.SAGEAudioConvert.Program.MakeAC3AudioTrack(String movie, AudioTrack dtsTrack, String& newFilename)
   at DESIKE.SAGEAudioConvert.Program.ConvertMovie(String movie, String language)
   at DESIKE.SAGEAudioConvert.Program.Main(String[] args)

SAGEAudioConvert 0.1.15
 
 using madshi eac3to http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966
       mediainfo dll http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
       mkvtooolnix   http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/index.html
 Thread priority set to: Idle
 Language Filter: [en, eng] English
  Analyzing Gladiator.mkv.
   Audio track: [en] DTS 5.1.
   No corresponding AC-3 track found.
     Creating AC-3 track.

Here are my SJQ server and client setup (which I copied and modified from an earlier post)

if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsVideoFile{} == true && Filename =$ ".mkv" && FileExists != "%d%/%p%.dtsDone" ] {
   :PRIORITY 200 # Optional, default priority is zero
   DTSAUDIOCONVERT
}

DTSAUDIOCONVERT
{
   :CPU "LOW"
   :OFFHOUR "0, 14-23" #Run 12 AM - 2 PM
   :OFFDAY "1, 7" #Run Monday-Friday
   :MAX 1
  "c:/sagetv/SAGEAudioConvert/SAGEAudioConvert.exe -workdir=v:/temp -language=en -inplace -kbps=640 -markdone -priority=low \"%c%\""
}

Any idea's what might be causing this? I can't tell if this is a SJQ configuration error or something with SAGEAudioConvert.exe.

[vividweb]

This is a great tool.

Tried it with one of my movies, it created the AC3 track as track 2, as expected. When I tried playing the movie I could not select the AC3 track to playback (I tried the Audio button on the remote and nothing was in the options menu to change audio streams either.) I checked the file using media info and the track was there.

I ended up using MKVtoolnix to change the order of the audio tracks. and once the AC3 track was number 1 it all played fine.

Is there anyway that this tool could modify the order of the tracks or strip out the DTS if possible?

[starfire]

Did you get Sage to rescan the import folders after adding the AC3? - that may have been needed.

[vividweb]

I'll let it sit for a while. I have both tracks in just have put the AC3 as track 1. I also tried changing the DTS track to be an English track as well (instead of und). That didn't help right off the bat.

[vividweb]

After the file was scanned again by Sage it picked up the audio, but I'm not sure if that was because I also changed the language type to eng from und. We'll see what happens. Of course the file that won't work will be the one the wife is going to watch.

[jdamore]

Mike, Thanks for the utility! Just what I needed!

I got it working just how I want it but, I'm having trouble, I think from not knowing MS cmd to well..

When I ran a few tests I copied a few mkvs to directory "F:\test" and it worked.

Now that I'm confident on what I'm doing, I want to run it on all my movies. I pointed audioconvert to "F:\HD MOVIES\HD Movies" but it tells me its an invalid directory.

Is it the spaces between "HD Movies" that makes it an invalid directory?