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Old 18th April 2017, 12:28   #14206  |  Link
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Originally Posted by LigH View Post
I can't tell you for sure, but I guess there may be circumstances where eac3to will only extract a 5.1 core and simply omit additional channels. Or it was just matrix encoded, no discrete 7.1 source anyway. You will have to specify more precisely which source format you have and which parameter set you used.
Source was DTS-HD MA 7.1 (Zootopia). I just used the stream extractor gui for eac3to, selected the audio track and selected AC3 for output (which would default to a 5.1 640kbps output). The log in both cases say the additional channels were mixed into the surround channels.
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