Transform Your Audio Handbrake vs FFMPEG - AC3 Passthrough Dominance

EDIT: Handbrake also lets you copy the audio stream of the source under "(mp3, aac, ac3, dts) pass-through". Have you checked that out? EDIT ... 265 HEVC with Handbrake without having to know or understand all of ... AC3 as passthru and then a second AAC track down-mixed for stereo. HandBrake can take your MKV and output an MKV, passing the audio and subtitles through while re-encoding the video to H.264 (will take a while though). 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 ... The difference is that Handbrake uses a GUI (graphical user interface) to convert media files, while FFmpeg uses the command line to encode or ... ... AC3 (pass-thru). Am I missing something here or is there an additional package that needed to be installed? lame, libvorbis and xvid support ... Right, but unfortunately Handbrake doesn't seem to have the option for Linear PCM pass thru, regardless of container. I think the closest ... AC3 passthrough does work in .mov files with 48KHz files, of any bit rate. I did this with importing a .ac3 file into .mov, and adding a video track. HandBrake actually can't do this; it can do a simple copy of audio or subtitle streams, but it always re-encodes the video. – evilsoup. Or the other thoroughly tested approach is to do the final encoding in Handbrake ... AC3 passthru and AC3 (ffmpeg). Thank You Quote. More. Direct ...