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Synced using Eac3to, no transcoding, dialnorm and metadata intact.

I also made a custom version replacing the horrendous end credits song with soundtrack cut "The GoldenEye Overture" from the pre-title sequence. Also compiled without transcoding.

I have the LD DTS mix available, as well, synced again without transcoding, original end song intact...unfortunately.

Of course, the AC3 famously has outrageous LFE, almost bordering on annoying. But its still pretty fun.

PM for link.

Hi,

New member here, fan of rare and extended versions.

Glad I found this place,

Cheers!

Please help me compare the Lord of the Rings DTS mixes. There are 3 I know of.

LOTR trilogy Cinema DTS discs
LOTR trilogy Extended Edition DTS DVD mix
LOTR trilogy bluray DTS mixes

Obviously the Cinema DTS is theatrical. Probably even the dvds. But are the Bluray DTS mixes theatrical? Plus, which is the best mix? The most famous example of a bluray mix being worse than the DVD mix (that I can think of) is the DTS for Master and Commander.

Whoops, the extended edition DVD DTS isn’t theatrical. I mean only the theatrical parts.

New member from Canada.

Been trying to learn more about older cuts and restorations!

Hi!

New member from Spain.
A fan of original versions and rarities.
I hope to learn a lot here

Hello all.

I have synced the following dubs and tracks to the Bluray release by Deaf Crocodile.

German 5.1 [DVD]
German Commentary [DVD]
English [DVD]
Spanish [VHS]
Portuguese [VHS]
Hungarian [VHS]
Russian - Voiceover [VHS]

The VHS tracks were found online and vary in quality. The Spanish VHS was graciously shared with me by a private collector. This dub was only released in this censored. Therefore, I filled those gaps with the Bluray track.

If you have higher quality sources for the VHS tracks, I'd be willing to do a V2 of them. PM for links.

Hello, long time lurker but 1st time as registered, hope all are well

What's happening forum. DD-EX and DTS-ES decoding has been kind of a blindspot for this forum in terms of decoding. There's been various theories on how but none of them have produced good results or results at all. However I was toying around with some new tools and I found a method that works even better than the official decoders do!

Software/plugins needed:
Any NLE/DAW
REAPER
LtRtMatrix (https://github.com/MPdecode/LtRtMatrixDecoder)

1. Install LtRtMatrix as described on the GitHub
2. Open up your 5.1 track in a different editing program. Isolate the surround tracks and make them into a stereo file
3. Open REAPER and import your isolated surrounds
4. In REAPER, click the "ROUTE" button in the masterbus and set track channels to 6 and output to 1-6
5. Click the FX button on the masterbus and locate LtRtMatrix
6. Once applied, change the mode from Full Logic to LRC
7. Export your tracks by changing the channel count to 3

And boom! You now have highly accurate decoded surrounds. Through this method I was able to find that the 5.1 track on the 2013 Blu-Ray for The Terminator does indeed retain the matrixed center channel that the DVD advertised despite it not being flagged on the Blu-Ray. This also worked for me on the Theatrical DTS track for The Phantom Menace. If you need any further assistance just let me know. Happy sailings!

quote from plaidcookies91 on TheStarWarsTrilogy forums:
"Fun fact: Dolby’s official implementation of EX, the SA10 adapter, was a stripped-down CP45 processor which used their standard four-channel matrix decoding circuitry. The decoder’s LCR outputs fed the Left Surround, Back Surround, and Right Surround speaker channels, respectively. Although the decoder’s fourth channel was not routed anywhere, it was still considered by the logic steering circuitry, meaning that out-of-phase information was removed from the decoded surround channels. Using the LtRtMatrix plugin set to LCR mode reverses EX encoding precisely and is therefore more technically correct than the real thing!

Dolby SA10 manual:
https://www.film-tech.com/warehouse/manu...BYSA10.pdf"

Thank You for having me.

I'm a 51 yr-old Gen Xer who's a big fan of The Terminator and many other movies of the 70s and 80s.

Looking to have many great discussions on here.

Cheers and Hasta La Vista Baby!