Empowering Audiophiles with FFMPEG's AC3 Passthru Capabilities

... or DD/DTS 3/2+1 with makeMKV. Step 2 - Use Handbrake's AC3 (ffmpeg) and Dolby Pro Logic II to allow for at least reasonable sound on lower quality "home ... 2021-02 Update: Handbrake's latest code has HDR10 static metadata support. Thankfully, you can avoid some hassle and save HDR10 or HDR10+ by ... and even more when video is concerned. There's AAC, MP3, AC3, DTS ... (Handbrake & FFmpeg). Tek Syndicate•25K views · 19:44 · Go to channel ... I am a huge fan of HandBrake. It is the epitome of simple. Select a video file (or DVD), select a preset, select an output path, click Start. 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 but this is visible as one audio track with option "Prefer AC3 passthrough". I've compressed a movie in handbrake with AAC and AC3 audio ... I've tried various things - handbrake, avconv/ffmpeg, demux -> faad -> aften - including a lot of messing with the options in all three cases, ... Still the problem with using Handbrake is that it cannot encode an ac3 audio file with 5.1 channels and a bitrate of 448kbps or less. Therefore ... My DVD rip contains [AC3 5.0 ch] audio track. I want to compress the track and maintain 5.0 using AAC or AC3(ffmpeg) to 256 Bitrate. questionlp":3o6b79uq said: "The audio that accompanies X.264 video, on the other hand, can only be AAC or AC3 (Dolby Digital, often 5.1 channels surround)."