Exceptional Audio Quality Handbrake AC3 Passthrough vs FFmpeg Conversion

"AC3 Passthru" will take an existing AC3 soundtrack and include an exact copy as a track in the final encode. "AC3" will take a non-AC3 source ( ... copy will passthrough either ac3 or dts. Separated by commas for more than ... "-1" means ffmpeg, HandBrake's fast, quick'n'dirty, traditional deinterlacer. - For films use AC3 passthru - For concerts or musicals, convert LPCM to FLAC (if available, else either passthru DTS, or as above) - Label ... Regarding to Handbrake, I can't find equivalent for ffmpeg's '-acodec copy'. ... Audio > Encoder > AC3 Passthru (5.1 ch) bitrate: 384. Now that I ... ... or pass-thru such huge streams: encode it down to 128 or 160 Kbps AAC 2-channel stereo audio streams with the ffmpeg encoder. MP4 or M4V is ... ... HandBrake, chosing to encode from the DTS (5.1) track to an AC3 (ffmpeg) track with 6-channel discrete mixdown. I cut a second track to AAC ... Video: MPEG-4(ffmpeg), H.264(x264), or Theora(libtheora) Audio ... AC3 Secondary Audio streams available for decoding and/or passthrough. HandBrake video passthrough = no A/V sync correction; HandBrake video passthrough = no filters (would fail to interlace, deinterlace, denoise, deblock, sharpen, ... However there are two problems: 1) The quality of ffmpeg's built-in aac encoder is bad. 2) If your H264 stream contains b-frames, stream copy ... The Handbrake profiles listed in video_compatibility Wiki page work fine for me (streaming or ... Audio Codec: AC3 Passthru. Everything else was disabled (mixdown ...