Master AC3 Passthrough Comparing Handbrake and FFMPEG for Optimal Audio

ffmpeg.exe -i inputfile.mp4 -i additionalaudiotrack.ac3 -map 0:v ... AC3 passthrough. ITunes will be playing the 5.1 audio track ... If you have an audio system that can decode AC3 and DTS (or ever think you might) then you should pass through those tracks – chosing ... 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 ... Okay. Being that AC3 passthru does not always show up I'm assuming ac3 ffmpeg is the same so that's what I will put. Hope that is what I ... 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 ... 2021-02 Update: Handbrake's latest code has HDR10 static metadata support. Thankfully, you can avoid some hassle and save HDR10 or HDR10+ by ... ... 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). To solve both problems, I have changed from ffmpeg to Handbrake and I am following the encoding guidance of Rokoding. ... Codec = AC3 Passthru. In ... As a workaround I encoded the 7.1 stream as AAC using ffmpeg (copy video stream) and than transcoded it in HandBrake using AAC Passthru. ... ac3,mp2,mp3,opus and to encode ... audio · video · command-line · handbrake ... But I cannot get Handbrake or ffmpeg use more than 50% (4) of my (8) cores ...