MakeMKV allows you to select just the HD audio tracks. It's free while in BETA. DVDfab also allows you to select the HD audio tracks. In most programs, just select the HD audio track. The lossless HD audio tracks contain the Core internally at all times. Just some programs will let you select two formats: HD audio or the Core. DTS-HD MA/TrueHD will always have the Core embedded, but it will not effect the file size. In programs like MakeMKV, you'll see that it allows you to choose several formats for the audio. -Lossless HD audio --Core audio -Lossless HD audio (different language) --Core audio (different language) -AC3@640 (core without the HD audio) -AC3@xxx bitrate (AC3 audio for commentary/foreign language/etc without the HD audio)
There is no lossy core in TrueHD and no you can't take out the lossy part from DTS HD-MA because the lossless part is "added" on top of the lossy part.
There IS support for lossy cores in TrueHD, most soundtracks employ it, and you CAN indeed strip away the core to be left with just the lossless portion. You can't do squat about DTS-HD Master but capture the lossy core. Code:
What's your point? It's still a lossy track to fall back to. Who cares about the computational method they use to pair the two into one space? To the consumer, who has ZERO need to separate the two, they are the same damn thing.
Again, it's just BS semantics. The comments about it were completely pointless in this context because they offered no help and gave completely horrible information.
It's BS semantics...pure and simple. DTS-HD Master and its core operate the same exact way. Things that cannot decode the master will decode the core. TrueHD operates the same way. The only difference is that it can operate without a core. It doesn't makes its core not a core.