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Madoka
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AAC Re-encode Question

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Sorry for the newb question.

I transcode a lot of .mp4s with AAC audio due to subtitles. I was wondering if re-encoding a lossy AAC track into AC-3 results in more loss of information (more lossy, I guess)?

Thanks.
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Re: AAC Re-encode Question

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If the bitrate of the AC-3 is 640kbps there shouldn't be any real loss. Technically there is loss but you can't hear it.
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Re: AAC Re-encode Question

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Thanks, SubJunk.

And thanks for UMS! It's now a rare file that doesn't play for me. I've banished the transcode folder.
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That's excellent news, thanks! Got another release I'm building now which will improve file support even more :)
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I'm looking forward to 2.3.0 and trying subtitles with FFmpeg.
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We're aiming for putting FFmpeg external subtitle support in 2.4.0 :)
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Re: AAC Re-encode Question

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I see that the FFmpeg/subtitles commit is back. Can't wait to try this out!
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