DVD AUDIO EXTRACTOR WIKIPEDIA FOR MAC
DVD AUDIO EXTRACTOR WIKIPEDIA SOFTWARE

With only a handful or two of top titles ever released on DVD-Audio, consumers in the mainstream rejected the format. They should have been fearful that consumers would reject the format because of a lack of quality titles, the $1000 cost of the players, the cost of the eight cables needed and the need for a new surround sound AV preamp. Record labels in their infinite wisdom forced consumers to use 5.1 analog outputs for MLP because of fears of piracy. They had video output (unlike SACD), as well as backwards compatibility with DVD-Video discs.ĭVD-Audio's highest level of audio came via Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) which was a codec that could reproduce a convincing copy of the master tape mixed in stereo or 5.1 surround. DVD-Audio players could play both stereo and 5.1 surround sound discs. Ps.DVD-Audio is the now mostly-dead high-resolution audio (and video) format that competed with the also mostly-failed SACD disc format from Sony.

I spent a fair bit of time after that trying to downmix multichannel content myself as I've got a lot of multichannel music but nothing I ever tried came close to the excellent results Robin achieved.Ĭlick here to visit his website to read about the process involved and listen to the results if you haven't done so already. I got in touch with him a while ago about doing more but he said he no longer has the equipment (or the time at the time) to do so.

DVD AUDIO EXTRACTOR WIKIPEDIA SOFTWARE

He made the downmixes a number of years ago now using a minidisc and PC software (Creative software/sound card or something like that) to capture the downmixed content in real-time. They have a much better dynamic range than the official stereo mixes that accompanied their respective releases and in some cases, the downmixes are new mixes as the source material for the multichannel mixes differed from the standard stereo sources. There's a guy called Robin Sharoma who downmixed all the Talking Heads 5.1 mixes to stereo and apart from the live concert downmixes, which didn't really have great surround content to start with, the downmixes of the studio albums all sound superb. The only info is a reference to it being a 5.1 DTS downmix, which is odd because there is no DTS codec on this disc?! The dynamic range values DVDAE extractions match those on the dr-loudness database, but there is no mention of how the latter were obtained. However, given my OCD tendencies, I'm curious to know what the difference is between the two mixdown approaches, and which is the more theoretically 'correct'? Not a huge difference but big enough to suggest the two programs have different mixdown approaches.īoth sound great and are a MASSIVE improvement on the brickwalled stereo release that's very fatiguing to listen to. The mixdowns performed in Audacity typically has slightly more dynamic range than those done by DVDAE, around 0.75dB more on average. The two methods produced slightly different results. (I didn't adjust the levels of any tracks in Audacity prior to the mixdown, but the resulting mixdown was around +8dB above 0dBFS in level so, to avoid clipping, I had to lower it to below -0dBFS before exporting). I also extracted the 6ch audio, imported it into Audacity and used it to do the 6ch to 2ch mix down. I first let DVDAE do the 6ch to 2ch mixdown. Having noticed on the dr-loudness database that Fleetwood Mac's 'Say You Will' album has significantly more dynamic range when the 6-channel version on the DVD-Audio disc is mixed down to 2-channel stereo, I decided to see if I could extract it myself.

DVD AUDIO EXTRACTOR WIKIPEDIA FOR MAC

I recently discovered that the DVD Audio Extractor app for Mac can extract not only the audio tracks from DVD-Video (stored in VIDEO_TS) but also the MLP-format audio track from DVD-Audio discs (stored in AUDIO_TS). When I was into surround sound in the mid-2000s I bought a handful of DVD-Audio discs. I probably won't get any replies to this as it's a very niche subject, but you never know!

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