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Thank god. Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to cleanly sample most modern movies because of this proprietary codec bullshit?

The best results come from ripping voiceovers out of the center channel... but busting through encryption and figuring out the right proprietary codec to open the audio is a pain.

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I've found that the easiest way to extract audio data from a Blu-ray movie is to rip the file using MakeMKV and then use FFMPEG to convert the audio data to my codec of choice be it wav, aac, opus, etc. FFMPEG takes care of identifying the right codec to decode.

Does it work with the proprietary stream formats like DTS? I believe I am using some plugin for Audacity for that, but I hate doing the actual sampling in Audacity so it then gets loaded into another editor.

Yes, it works with DTS. Here is the full list of supported codecs: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Audio-Codecs

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