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Registered: June 5, 2007 | Reputation: ![High Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/1.png) | Posts: 93 |
| Posted: | | | | I've been looking at available tools for analysing Blu-Ray discs, and have had a look at BDInfo, which is currently v0.5.1. This looks like a great tool, which displays pretty much everything you could want to know about the video/audio streams in the various playlists on the disc ![](/images/emoticons/thumbup.gif) However, I found a problem: it automatically sorts all the streams, so that they don't get lists as they are encoded on the disc ![](/images/emoticons/thumbdown.gif) This is particularly relevant to Audio Streams, as the rules says Quote: List audio tracks in the order in which they are encoded on the disc, determined via your DVD player or DVD-ROM drive. and BDInfo does not necessarily display the tracks in the encoded order ![](/images/emoticons/brood.gif) I've taken the source code for BDInfo (freely available), and located the offending line in TSPlaylistFile.cs Quote: AudioStreams.Sort(CompareAudioStreams); foreach (TSStream stream in AudioStreams) which I've modified to Quote: if (BDInfoSettings.SortAudioStreams) { AudioStreams.Sort(CompareAudioStreams); } foreach (TSStream stream in AudioStreams) using a new global option "SortAudioStreams", so Audio sorting can be toggled on/off. Anyone with a suitable compiler can also change the sorting option by simply commenting out the call to the Sort function Quote: //AudioStreams.Sort(CompareAudioStreams); foreach (TSStream stream in AudioStreams) I'll see if I can talk to the developers, and see if they will implement such an option for "purists" such as us ![](/images/emoticons/tongue_smilie.gif) In the meantime, take care using this tool to correctly order the Audio Tracks, as it will probably be listing them incorrectly. | | | You can download higher resolution versions of any of my cover scans from here |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: ![Highest Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/4.png) | Posts: 20,111 |
| Posted: | | | | Good to know!
I'm pretty sure that PowerDVD 8 Ultra displays the audio tracks in the correct encoded order for BR discs when playing, but I haven't used it enough to be certain yet. | | | Corey |
| Registered: June 12, 2007 | Reputation: ![High Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/1.png) | Posts: 2,665 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote: I'm pretty sure that PowerDVD 8 Ultra displays the audio tracks in the correct encoded order for BR discs when playing, but I haven't used it enough to be certain yet. As does the version 7 iterations that handle BD/HD-DVD. When i directly command my PS3 to change Audio tracks (not using the menus, simply commanding it to cycle thru the tracks) they match the order PowerDVD gets. | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: ![Highest Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/4.png) | Posts: 20,111 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting tweeter: Quote: As does the version 7 iterations that handle BD/HD-DVD. I still have version 7 on my computer, but it needs a small software update to fully play all BD/HD-DVD discs without problems. But, with version 8 also installed on my computer, it won't even allow the update without uninstalling that. I don't know why Cyberlink didn't just leave HD-DVD support on version 8. ...and I still prefer the version 5 interface better than either of those versions! ![](/images/emoticons/wink.gif) | | | Corey |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 810 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote: ... I don't know why Cyberlink didn't just leave HD-DVD support on version 8.
...and I still prefer the version 5 interface better than either of those versions! ![](/images/emoticons/wink.gif) My guess is that they would have to pay a fee to HDDVD (Toshiba?) for the right to play HDDVD disks. pdf | | | Paul Francis San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA |
| Registered: June 5, 2007 | Reputation: ![High Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/1.png) | Posts: 93 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote: I still have version 7 on my computer, but it needs a small software update to fully play all BD/HD-DVD discs without problems. But, with version 8 also installed on my computer, it won't even allow the update without uninstalling that. I don't know why Cyberlink didn't just leave HD-DVD support on version 8. I am too stuck at version 7 for the same reasons ![](/images/emoticons/sad.gif) Although, I am slowly buying Blu-Ray replacements for the small number of HD-DVD's I had to buy (I already generally bought Blu-Ray, but bought a select amount of HD-DVD's that were the sole format released). Okay, I didn't have to buy them, but we all have some similar kind of OCD here ![](/images/emoticons/tongue_smilie.gif) | | | You can download higher resolution versions of any of my cover scans from here | | | Last edited: by Lewpy |
| Registered: June 5, 2007 | Reputation: ![High Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/1.png) | Posts: 93 |
| Posted: | | | | Just to update ... I gave some feedback to the developer, and he has incorporated some of my suggestions in to the lastest build ![](/images/emoticons/thumbup.gif) So v0.5.2 now has an option to keep the original stream ordering, which you will need to turn on once in the settings. The Rescan button was a suggestion, because I am lazy ![](/images/emoticons/cool.gif) he's augmented it so that it remembers the path between sessions too ... sweeet ![](/images/emoticons/tongue_smilie.gif) If only there was such a detailed tool for DVD's too ![](/images/emoticons/sad.gif) | | | You can download higher resolution versions of any of my cover scans from here |
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