Audio Dominance HandBrake and Encorde's Passthrough Conquest

Additionally, why is AAC still the default if the encoder is so potentially bad? I did read someone mention that if they wanted the "good" ... Today's Reviews ... Cases ... CPU Coolers ... Gaming PC ... Graphics Cards ... Harddisks ... Headphones ... Keyboards ... Memory ... Monitors ... Motherboards. Are you encoding it to an mkv or an MP4? MP4 does not support TrueHD audio so if you want an MP4 you'll need to re-encode the audio. Upvote 2 These defaults will passthru every audio and subtitle track it finds, regardless of language. For any audio track, Handbrake can't passthru ... ... Handbrake that this happens ... Encoder Preset: at least Slow (but even slower if you have time). And then for audio I just passthru ... Essentially you can either put time in creating 'uniform' MKV source files, so Handbrake (as part of an encode queue) can automatically ... Handbrake will always compress the video. If you just want to change it from mkv to mp4, try ffmpeg or avidemux . I use it mainly for surround sound but if your source is a 2 channel stereo track, AAC 160kbps or passthru should be good enough. AC3 should be ... Encoding will happily use 100%cpu. pps, the issue i had with handbrake was the audio encoder, in case you encode the audio too instead of just ... ... audio bitrate between them isn't going to make much difference in ... I'd keep the DTS 5.1 and AC3 5.1 as passthru, and I'd dump the DTS-HD.