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14th April 2002, 01:23 | #1 | Link |
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AC3 in MP4!
Does anyone know if MP4 will support AC3 as well as AAC?
edit by bond: As of August 2008 the official ac3 specs now include in annex f the specifications for how to place ac3 and eac3 in mp4: http://webapp.etsi.org/WorkProgram/R...p?WKI_ID=28541 Last edited by bond; 5th September 2008 at 19:00. |
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the mp4 muxer on my site supports mp3, aac and ac3 input.. I cannot guarantee that standalones will eventually support that.. very much is still in the designing phase.. if I remember correctly the specs only contain aac.. but maybe due to the fact that there will be devices also capable of playing AC3 it may be possible to use that audio format. But at this point.. nobody really knows.. and those who are working on creating devices usually cannot share what they know until there's an official press release
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This thread contains useful info about this topic. Basically AC3 can be muxed, but not supported by the ISO spec. Anyways, AAC is far superior to AC3, and at lower bitrates, so there should be no good reason to do that.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19497 |
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In some cases its not really worth it to me to re-compress the AC3 which is already fairly compressed in some cases (2channel@192kB/s) to save a little space and loose alot of quality. This is usually on the case with anime series and movies i cherish. But i do agree that 5channel AC3 on most filmed movies is necessary to downmix and re-compress so AAC is ideal in those cases.
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For my best knowledge the ISO supported Codecs for MP4 are: AAC LC, AAC Main, AAC LTP, AAC SSR, AAC LD, ER AAC (LD), CELP, TwinVQ and PCM raw.
Nobody knows yet what future hardware players will support. The only leads i found were from Ivan Dimkovic (Psytel): Quote:
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if you kept the original ac3 along with a video stream like xvid, all you would have to do to get an mpeg-4 compliant file in the future when standalone players are available and such files become needed would simply be to transcode the audio to aac or something and then mux the new audio and old video streams together, right? and then you get to take advantage of the latest in aac encoding technology and whatnot, while not losing any of the original ac3 quality. so from this standpoint, regardless of whether or not mp4 supports ac3, it's the most flexible solution for the future.
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Is there now any official way of muxing AC3 into MP4?
I'm encoding my library with x264 @ Q24, which looks fantastic, but when I encode my 5.1 AC3 with nero cmd encoder at @0.30, which appears to be a good balance between size and quality, I end up with a 5.1 audio file within 100MBs of the AC3, so I may as well keep the origional. Turns out AC3 seems to use about 64kb/s per channel? Which appears to be reasonably efficient? TIA |
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when you want to combine avc with ac3 use mkv (or theoretically mpg would also make sense as hddvd uses it)
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I'll do regular updates to the new section.
One remarkable thing is that Cinema-AVC and HDTV-AVC NeroDigital profiles will be officially supporting multichannel AC3 audio. I think this will be a special interest for many who want to archive HDTV tv-streams, or re-encode (unencrypted) blu-ray/hd-dvd into smaller size stream. Skipping the re-encoding of the audio to AAC will also speed up the overall encoding process. The AC3 support for NeroDigital MP4 will come before the summer. Last edited by JohnV; 5th February 2007 at 17:49. |
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Those changes we all forgot about last month...
Version number 2.4.5.0 Release Date: 01-18-2007 Changes/Bugfixes * Under Windows, the Data Files tab was not correctly drawn in Aero mode Version number 7.7.5.1 Release Date: 01-18-2007 Changes/Bugfixes * Under Windows Vista, Windows Movie Maker crashed if Nero was running in a few cases * Burning a compilation to the image recorder was not possible in some cases * Improved AC3 encoding * Preview of AC3 files was not possible in some cases * Nero Burning ROM could not always read the previous session of a multisession disc * The size bar was not updated when using "continue multisession disc" feature * Audio books could not be burned on CDs in some cases * A misleading error message was displayed when trying to use a folder that did not exist Is Nero embarrassed about these updates? Why are changes posted 3 weeks later? |
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This might be not an bad idea for Vobsub too.
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Shame the implementation wont be extended to some of the MPEG-4 Part-2 profiles as well. Or can they? Are you no longer intending to carry on using MP4Box for muxing Doom9?
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JohnV was referring to providing multichannel AC3 support within .MP4 for use with their CinemaAVC and HDTVAVC profiles. And sadly not for use with their CinemaASP, or "Main Profiles" as they like to call them.
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