I extracted a DTS stream from a DVD that is approximately 2:15 long.

When I try to get a PCM/WAV file, FB2K finishes without any errors, but the resulting file only plays for about two hours, cutting off the end. I have tried both fixed point and floating point formats. I can split the file and transcode half at a time and the ends do not get cut off.

I get the same sort of error with Hypercube Transcoder.

I do not believe it is a problem with the file, because I can get a complete AC3 or WAV using the BeSweetGUI. And as I said, I can split the DTS file in two and both halfs transcode completely.

What I was actually trying to do was get the DTS file into a format that would be accepted by one of my other AC3 transcoders, as BeSweet has a problem of putting out files with low volume.

Additionally, there was a problem with the WAV output by FB2K in that the ouput is all going to the left channel, i can hear very little out of the center or right. In Stero mode, most of the sound comes from just the left speaker.

The AC3 output by BeSweetGUI while not as 'loud' as I'd like, has normal output to center, left and right in 5.1 mode and in stereo mode the sound is well balanced between left and right.

mugz

As a side note, as I have still been researching the issue, it appears that the 'volume' problem so often used to criticize BeSweets AC3 encoder, is probably not a real 'problem' at all.

I ran accross this very informative article, for those of you who don't want to read the whole thing, which was very educational for me, just go to the paragraph that starts out:

"A common criticism is that Dialogue Normalization "normally" reduces the level of the soundtrack by about 4 dB" :

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_2/...ion-6-2000.html

mugz

FAT32 System?
Perhaps your WAV is getting bigger than 4GB?
Check that and use NTFS!

na, NTFS - the 32bit PCM_WAV died at about 9gigs of data, the 16bit WAV quit at about half that, and in both cases the last 15 minutes of the track was cut off.

i think THIS thread explains the problem.