Choosing the Right Tool for AC3 Passthru Handbrake vs. FFMPEG

... (Handbrake, WinFF, FFmpeg, MEncoder,...) I lose the video's subtitles. How can I convert the video, keeping the subtitles, or add a subtitles . ... AC3 (pass-thru). Am I missing something here or is there an additional package that needed to be installed? lame, libvorbis and xvid support ... ... AC3 5.1 as a 2nd option? [RAY] Description=High profile, good quality 1 pass MP4 (H.264/AC3) conversion. order=handbrake,ffmpeg,mencoder I think ffmpeg will do the job it's quite simply copy all the streams and output them in an mkv container. No information is lost/re-encoded. 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. 1 or DTS I used Handbrake to create MKVs of the main movie (ie the ... E-AC3/DD++ is better than AC3/AAC and DD5.1 as these are limited ... ... ac3 copy:ac3 eac3 copy:eac3 copy:truehd copy:dts copy:dtshd copy:mp2 mp3 ... FFmpeg yadif. Presets: skip-spatial bob Custom Format: mode=m:parity=p ... So if you choose "AC3 passthru" but have DTS, you cannot pass AC3 on to your encoded file. You could either choose "auto passthru" which leaves ... Also, I've tried Handbrake before and had difficulty getting pass through audio. ... Handbrake doesn't allow that through the gui or command line. From what I can find, Handbrake and ffmpeg use the same engine under the hood to do the aac encoding (faac), so it makes sense that whatever ...