Unveiling the Secrets of AC3 Passthrough A Guide to Immersive Audio Excellence

This is kind of maddening and now when I use handbrake I create a second track of non pass through ffmpeg ac3 mixing down to dolby. this works ... I've just noticed that when I try to force mplayer to use AC3 passthrough (-ac hwac3) my AV amp does get some dolby digital signals through, but ... For example; some TVs will passthrough an 5.1 AC3 signal but not 5.1 DTS. One of my TVs has some dumb thing where it will passthrough only a ... Does this pipe work for you? gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=~/Downloads/unfold.eac3 ! ac3parse disable-passthrough=false ! a52dec ... I haven't got AC3 passthru working, it keeps cutting back to pcm. It is tough to work on this without bothering my wife so it is low priority. If you ever ... Kodi clearly separates PCM settings and Passthrough settings. Channels are for PCM. DTS and AC3 and EAC3 are transmitted via 2 PCM channels only, as they are ... ... v copy -strict 2 -sn "$file.ac3.ts". End up with a 2 ... AC3 and allows AC3 passthru while cutting the ends off the file as required. AC3 passthrough does work in .mov files with 48KHz files, of any bit rate. I did this with importing a .ac3 file into .mov, and adding a video track. Handbrake does make two tracks on the Apple TV preset -- one is just a straight passthrough of the source track with no compression (AC3 ... I can't hear any sound difference coming out from the speaker between using the pass-through (no processing in ffdshow audio) and the AC3 encoding (ffd show ...