Decoding Audio with Precision Handbrake AC3 Passthrough vs FFmpeg

Container formats ; Container: ; Audio formats supported ͏ ; MKV/MKA: Opus, Vorbis, MP2, MP3, LC-AAC, HE-AAC, WMAv1, WMAv2, AC3, E-AC3, TrueHD ͏ ... I have experimented with Handbrake And if I choose mp4 and AC3 pass through as, then I get 5.1 out of my sonos system. I am just not sure ... 264 video codec and audio compressed using AAC, MP3 or possibly AC3. ... Here you can choose which video encoder to use (either x264 or FFmpeg), ... ... or mp4 or whatever only) but this works for me well enough. Also this is ... ac3, eac3, copy:)? " audiocodec echo -e "You entered \e[32m$audiocodec\e[m ... I use HandBrake for this, but HandBrake does not have very advanced audio encoders; for AAC only ffmpeg is supported. Therefore, I want to ... For aac encoding with stereo downmix. Note that both of these will re-encode even if source is already ac3/aac. So use -c:a copy if that is ... For MP4 files, HandBrake will automatically use the extension M4V when you pass-through audio (AC3), use SRT subtitles or have chapter markers enabled. You can ... HandBrake actually can't do this; it can do a simple copy of audio or subtitle streams, but it always re-encodes the video. – evilsoup. It looks like the following lines got it to work, but I just wanted to make sure. ffmpeg-audioac3=-acodec copy handbrake-audio=-E copy -a 1,2,3, ... ... HandBrake to E-AC3. Which is an issue for 7.1 and Atmos, because HandBrake does only support 5.1 E-AC3 (because of a limitation in FFMpeg).