Master Audio Quality Handbrake AC3 Passthrough vs FFmpeg Conversion

2021-02 Update: Handbrake's latest code has HDR10 static metadata support. Thankfully, you can avoid some hassle and save HDR10 or HDR10+ by ... The Handbrake profiles listed in video_compatibility Wiki page work fine for me (streaming or ... Audio Codec: AC3 Passthru. Everything else was disabled (mixdown ... ... 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 ... 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. The difference is that Handbrake uses a GUI (graphical user interface) to convert media files, while FFmpeg uses the command line to encode or ... ... or to AC3. However, the output file has working audio if I set the audio codec to use *Vorbis *or AAC passthru. ... FFmpeg developers built ... 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 ... decoding high bitrate 5.1 AC3/DTS can use some cpu power if you ... or MPEG-4 (FFmpeg) So, by choosing the MKV container, the MPEG-4 ... HandBrake supports passthru for a limited number of popular source formats. These are: AC3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD, MP3 or AAC (Passthru) ... FFMPEG ... Video: MPEG-4(ffmpeg), H.264(x264), or Theora(libtheora) Audio ... AC3 Secondary Audio streams available for decoding and/or passthrough.