Dynamic range compression by transcoding DTS into DD+?

[yepimonfire]

Assuming the dialogue is mixed at -27dBfs where it's supposed to be, -15dB on the volume control gives an average level of speaking at 70dB with soft voices and whispers at about 60dB, any lower than this and there are likely going to be passages where words are missed at farther listening positions. Unfortunately, at this volume level, and action scene can easily take the volume up to 95dB, instantly pissing off someone is trying to take a nap or read a book in the other room. Most of my blurays are pulled off onto a hard drive as mkv. If I were to transcode DTS MA into something like DD+ using ffmpeg, would DRC work or does the metadata for compressing the track have to be created by the engineer at the studio?

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[j_garcia]

Your receiver almost certainly has a "midnight" or "night" mode that will automatically do DRC regardless of audio type. Just remember to turn it off when you want to crank it.

 

[yepimonfire]

Your receiver almost certainly has a "midnight" or "night" mode that will automatically do DRC regardless of audio type. Just remember to turn it off when you want to crank it.

It's does, but doesn't work on DTS. It also has audyssey dynamic volume but audyssey always butchers my room response so I avoid it.

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[j_garcia]

Did a quick search and found someone else noticed the same issue with mkvs and dts. Have you tried a disc directly to see if it works with dts because it should? So in your case, yes it does sound like transcoding to DD+ is worth a shot.

 

[yepimonfire]

Did a quick search and found someone else noticed the same issue with mkvs and dts. Have you tried a disc directly to see if it works with dts because it should? So in your case, yes it does sound like transcoding to DD+ is worth a shot.

Nope, doesn't work. Night mode works fine on mkvs via pc so long as it's a dolby codec. Dts of any flavor pc or disc doesn't work. Shouldn't be any different. Whether it's a bluray or mkv the receiver still sees dts hd ma.

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[j_garcia]

Another search shows that it does appear to be the case. I'll give it a try on mine. I've never used that feature, so wouldn't have noticed that it didn't work.

 

[lovinthehd]

Dammit now I'll probably have to check mine even tho I don't need the feature, LOL. I know I did try the LFC and likely it was a DTS movie just by the odds....

 

[BGLeduc]

Great thread. I find that DD TrueHD often benefits from compression, depending on the mix, but there is no such option available for DTS Master. I watched Dead Pool the other night and was constantly riding the volume control. Very annoying.