i’ve decided to rip all my dvd disc to my nas using DvDFab… i just done my first rip and tested the Mkv on my WDTVLive and whilst the picture quality is good… there’s no sound coming through my speaker… I’ve never rip convert a DVD before and perhap set the audio setting wrongly before processing… i’d select the 5.1 dts audio box in DVDFAB… or should i have select AC-3/2 5.1 or AC3/2…??
here are the mediainfo of the dvd i’ve rip/convert:
Format : MatroskaFormat_Version : Version 2FileSize/String : 1.37 GiBDuration/String : 1h 22mnOverallBitRate/String : 2 361 KbpsMovie : SHOOT_EM_UP.Title1.DVDRipEncoded_Date : UTC 2011-08-03 14:02:57Encoded_Application : DVDFabEncoded_Library/String : libebml v0.7.8 + libmatroska v0.8.1
The problem you are having is because you selected the AAC profile, which transforms the selected DTS audio into the AAC format (not fully supported by the WD TV Live Plus).
I rip all my Blue-Rays and DVDs using the MKV.h.264.audiocopy profile in DVDFAB, and select 2 pass for better visual. This preserves whatever audio format I select (DTS-HD, TrueHD, DD 5.1, etc.) usually in AC3 format, and produces an MKV file between 4 and 8 GB per movie (the better the sound, the bigger the file).
It gives me excelent video and audio quality despite the compression ratio. DTS-HD is passed-through as DTS by the TV Live Plus (no DTS-HD licence on the box I believe), but TrueHD is supported.
If you need to put more than 1 audio track in your MKV, then you could use the MKV.Remux profile. The resulting file will be bigger than with the h.264 format though (20-40GB depending on the movie).
also what’s the recommended frame resolution? Does it pull it from the DVD source and recommend? I noticed the default for bugs life seems to be 720 and not something higher… is that because it’s not blu-ray?