AAC Re-encode Question

Madoka · Post by **Madoka** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:48 pm

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.

Post by **SubJunk** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 2:15 pm

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.

Madoka · Post by **Madoka** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:17 pm

Thanks, SubJunk.

And thanks for UMS! It's now a rare file that doesn't play for me. I've banished the transcode folder.

Post by **SubJunk** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:22 pm

That's excellent news, thanks! Got another release I'm building now which will improve file support even more

Madoka · Post by **Madoka** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:13 pm

I'm looking forward to 2.3.0 and trying subtitles with FFmpeg.

Post by **SubJunk** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:38 am

We're aiming for putting FFmpeg external subtitle support in 2.4.0

Madoka · Post by **Madoka** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:52 am

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

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