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... legal ramifications, the sad part is when I own it... another discussion] Install VLC, test export, import in Audacity? I don't know much about ffmpeg, but VLC is my go-to tool for audio and video in the rare cases Audacity can't import audio. If VLC fails too, there's still SOX... I have VLC ...

... in those channels. So now I'm starting to believe the above poster who said 'that the 2 rear-tracks were matrix'ed' like pro-logic. And/Or FFMpeg is lumping them together calling it 6 when it should be 8. Therefore it gets garbled. Either way, it shouldn't be garbled. i.e. A downmix, or ...

... past they did not seem so. So now I'm starting to believe the above poster who said 'that the 2 rear-tracks were matrix'ed' like pro-logic. And/Or FFMpeg is lumping them together calling it 6 when it should be 8. Therefore it gets garbled.

... legal ramifications, the sad part is when I own it... another discussion] Install VLC, test export, import in Audacity? I don't know much about ffmpeg, but VLC is my go-to tool for audio and video in the rare cases Audacity can't import audio. If VLC fails too, there's still SOX...

... try SUPER . It can convert to/from many formats and/or extract the audio stream, but I don't know if it supports 8-channel DTS-HD. SUPER uses FFmpeg, but I believe it includes at least one additional encode/decode library, so it's worth a try. If you download SUPER, be careful. There are ads ...

Also, you might consider upgrade to 2.1.1. http://audacityteam.org/download/windows You may get a better FFMpeg. Koz I'm sorry Audacity doesn't use the standard FFMpeg from their site...(or maybe) It is reporting this version: F(55.33.100), C(55.52.102),U(52.66.100) Audacity ...

... P4. http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294 I think P4 is accurate given (on Windows) there is not a problem with OGG (or with all FFmpeg cases) disregarding Default Sample Rate. I pointed that out in my response to your bug report. I can live with P3 if you really want to promote ...

umm guys FFMpeg may already be using libdca --- hence (DCA) as an option. It may be out of date or not yet have the ability to see 7.1. An earlier post suggested it was encoded in the channels like Pro-Logic (maybe, but I doubt ...

... https://github.com/wangp/libcda It's still experimental, incomplete and probably illegal in the US. Seems to be in ffmpeg too... Yes but how to use that with audacity? [Yes I assumed grabbing some music off a commercial blu-ray might have legal ramifications, the ...

VLC to the rescue?

It seems to be able to decode DTS through libCDA:

http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html
http://tjaden.strangesoft.net/libcda/
https://github.com/wangp/libcda

It's still experimental, incomplete and probably illegal in the US. Seems to be in ffmpeg too...