

Quoting this post because you've made my week. It's also open source and I invite the creators of MakeMKV and others to have a look perhaps we can all have flawless demuxed TrueHD streams in the future It's also open source and I invite the creators of MakeMKV and others to have a look perhaps we can all have flawless demuxed TrueHD streams in the future :) Feedback on a wider variety of discs would be great. I've tried it on most Disney/Pixar discs, as well as Alita: Battle Angel, and it works perfectly there. And that's it, really - if you get that right, A/V sync ends up perfect and pops and snaps are completely gone. It only cuts away TrueHD frames that are duplicates, ensuring there aren't any discontinuities anywhere in the track. I've written up my findings here in more detail, including a picture of said section of audio. You can still hear a pop at normal listening volume, but it's quiet enough where you won't notice unless you're actively listening for it. Take Monsters University, US UHD disc, playlist 00800, the audio between 2m29s and 2m30s. MakeMKV 1.15.1 fixed those egregiously loud pops and snaps, but they're still there if you listen closely. Disney/Pixar tracks are just much more susceptible due to their sheer number of segments. It is simply caused by demuxers cutting up the TrueHD track inappropriately. The core issue was never Atmos or high bitrate. This issue has been bothering me more than it should over the last few months, so I ended up writing my own tool because still no demuxer (including MakeMKV 1.15.1) handles TrueHD flawlessly.
