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Old 28th November 2008, 19:30   #7179  |  Link
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Originally Posted by madshi View Post
TrueHD always decodes to 24bit. A "16bit" TrueHD track also decodes to 24bit, but has the lower 8 bits zeroed out.
So you could also say since the more important channels are only 16bit, anyway, you can use "-down16" to convert the whole track to 16bit. However, doing this will result in eac3to applying dither to the main channels, too, unfortunately.
Maybe you can implement "smart" "-down16"-switch behaviour then? Which will truncate lower 8 bits instead of making "standard TPDF dithering" for these channels? Or there are hidden disadvantages?
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