Blu-ray comes with lossless audio quality. It must have AC3 and DTS codec audio with 5.1 surround sound. When ripping Blu-ray, many people would like to keep the AC3 or DTS 5.1 surround sound. Some devices like Apple TV can't decode DTS, in this case, you only can rip Blu-ray with AC3 5.1 surround sound. For those multimedia devices supporting DTS, you can rip Blu-ray with DTS 5.1 surround sound. If your Blu-ray ripping software can enable you to decrypt and backup Blu-ray with both AC3 and DTS 5.1 surround sound. In this article, you can learn how to rip Blu-ray to MKV with AC3 and DTS 5.1 surround sound and help you understand AC3 and DTS 5.1 surround sound.
Understanding 5.1 surround sound, AC3 (Dolby Digital) and DTS
5.1 Surround Sound
5.1 surround sound is the most common format. It includes a total of six channels — five full-bandwidth channels with 3-20,000 Hz frequency range for front left and right, center, and left and right surrounds, plus one "low frequency effects" (LFE) subwoofer channel for frequencies from 3-120 Hz.
AC3 – Definition
AC3 standing for Audio Coding 3, is a file extension for surround sound audio files. It is created by Dolby Laboratories in 1987 for use on DVDs, Blu-ray players, HDTV programming and home entertainment systems. AC3 format contains up to 6 discrete sound channels. The most frequently used 5 channels are dedicated for normal-range speakers (20 to 20,000Hz) and 1 channel for low frequency (20 to 120Hz) subwoofer effect. Specifically, they are left front, right front, center, left rear, right rear and 1 ultra-low track called 5.1 channel which is the standard surround sound audio most commonly used in commercial cinemas and home theaters.
DTS – Definition
DTS stands for Digital Theater Systems (now officially shortened to just DTS). Like Dolby Digital, DTS provides 5.1 channels of digital audio. However, DTS uses less compression than Dolby Digital. As a result, some say that the sound produced by DTS is slightly more accurate than the sound produced by Dolby Digital. While most audio/video receivers will have both Dolby Digital and DTS, fewer discs and video games are encoded with DTS, compared to the number encoded with Dolby Digital.
How to Rip Blu-ray with AC3 and DTS 5.1 surround sound
Software Needed: Pavtube ByteCopy
Pavtube ByteCopy can decrypt Blu-ray AACS, BD+, etc and then convert Blu-ray to digital files such as MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, AVI. Its unique feature is that it can rip Blu-ray to uncompressed MKV with lossless video and audio quality keeping all subtitles, chapter markers and audio tracks including AC3 and DTS 6 channels. It also can convert Blu-ray to MP4, MOV, AVI with multiple audio tracks.
Step 1: Load Blu-ray
Run Pavtube ByteCopy, and click “Load from Disc” button to import movie files from copy-protected Blu-ray Disc. Tip: You need a BD drive to read Blu-ray Disc.
Step 2: Choose MKV as output format
Select optimized video format for output. In order to preserve AC3 DTS 6 Channels audio in MKV file, you are suggested to choose “Multi-track Video > Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV(*.MKV)” as output format.
Step 3: Set AC3 5.1 and DTS 5.1 audio track
A Blu-ray Disc can include AC3 5.1, DTS 5.1, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-MA audio. Pavtube ByteCopy lets you keep the original AC3 5.1 and DTS 5.1 audio and down convert HD audio (Dolby TrueHD, DTS-MA, LPCM) to AC3 5.1 and DTS 5.1 audio. You can click "Settings" to choose AC3 and DTS 6 channels audio to keep.
Step 4: Start to rip Blu-ray with AC3 and DTS 6 channel
When everything’s settled down, back to the main interface and click the big “Convert” button to start ripping Blu-ray to MKV with converted Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 audio tracks.
In this way, you can rip Blu-ray with Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 surround sound and lossless video stream included. You can enjoy it now.
