Handbrake vs FFMPEG for AC3 Passthrough The Ultimate Showdown

Settings for all encodes were 22 quality using 1080p, DTS-HD AC3 256 bit stereo (limited options). ... passthru to see if the audio is possibly ... Bearing in mind that the Audio track was E-AC3 Dolby Atmos so that's why I have had to chose 'E-AC3 Passthrough' or 'copy:eac3'. If your ... AC3 Passthrough of a 5.1 audio track. Both these appear as options ... Now when I change the order in Handbrake, or remove the stereo ... Using a version of ffmpeg (build date 2009 - so ... AC3. i've never had a failure with my Sony "blue light" with these Handbrake encodes. 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 ... In fact, Handbrake uses FFmpeg internally for conversion. Another difference is that Handbrake supports DVD and Blu-Ray video as input, while ... Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis. AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 pass-thru. Features: Chapter selection, ... ... 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). If the DVD or Bluray has an AC3 track i usually pick AC3 passthru and if it has a DTS track i would pick DTS passthru to avoid reencoding. HandBrake can encode to AC3 using FFmpeg. This is not the same as Passthru. You can encode any audio track to AC3. Flac 16 and 24bit (FFmpeg):.