![]() ![]() I have no idea if that's something I came up with myself, or something I read about online, or what.ĭo the hundreds of MKVs I've created this way really have 640kb/s 5.1ch AC-3 streams like MediaInfo reports? Or is the stream something else with a header incorrectly reporting it as 5.1ch AC-3? The resultant files play back with what sounds like surround sound, but I'm not 100% sure I wouldn't be fooled by Dolby Pro Logic or whatever. But somewhere along the line I got the idea I could also use it the way I've been using it. That makes 100% sense in terms of, well, the meanings of words. ![]() Easy-peasy.īut is this actually doing what I think it's doing? The reason I ask is because most discussions I see of "AC3 passthru" online say you should only use it when starting with an AC3 stream. I just click "AC3 passthru" and I'm done. When I convert it with Handbrake using default General settings of seemingly any typeFast, Very Fast, HQ or Super HQthe audio downmixing from 5.1 audio results in weird stereo with essentially all of the audio going to the right channel and the left channel seems to have some channel that is justfor lack of a better term. It saves me the trouble of selecting "AC3" and then having to manually select the # of channels and bitrate. The resultant file lists the converted stream as 640kb/s 5.1ch AC-3, which is perfect for me. my home theater audio setup isn't super-awesome anyway, so I don't know that DTS/DTS-HD/whatever would sound much better.īut here's the catch: When there's no 5.1ch AC-3 stream available on the original, I usually go with whatever surround stream there is (DTS/DTS-HD/whatever) and STILL use the "AC3 passthru" option to convert it. and honestly, to my ears the 5.1ch AC-3 sounds fine. I do this rather than use one of the higher bitrate surround sound options (DTS, DTS-HD, etc.) to keep the streaming bitrate down. As such, when it comes to multichannel audio streams, if there's an 5.1ch AC-3 stream available on the original, I'll use Handbrake's AC3 passthru option to copy it unchanged to the transcoded MKV. ![]() bitrate so that there's no need to transcode when streaming over my home's wifi network. When I rip blu-ray and transcode the files to h.264 in an MKV container, I try to balance quality vs. What is it actually doing?įor years now, this has been my workflow, and now I'm wondering if I've been doing it wrong: I went from 6 channel FLAC to 6 channel AAC at 384 kbps. The problem is that I may have set the audio quality a bit too low. TL DR VERSION: I've been using AC3 Passthru on non-AC3 sources for years. 4th Jan 2018 23:31 1 umbala Member Jan 2018 I recently started re-encoding some of my high bit rate videos to save space using Handbrake. ![]()
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