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Old 13th October 2010, 14:41   #10621  |  Link
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Old 14th October 2010, 09:00   #10622  |  Link
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I have a problem to grab the eac3to error output with C# - normal output works fine. Does any1 have an idea how to do this? Might it be possible to add a switch to eac3to to print errors on standard output?

Btw thanks for your great tool!
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Old 14th October 2010, 10:12   #10623  |  Link
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Hi,

When downmixing 5.1 FLAC soundtracks to AC3 2.0, what is the optimal bitrate to go for? 192kbps? Or maybe higher?
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Old 14th October 2010, 11:13   #10624  |  Link
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When downmixing 5.1 FLAC soundtracks to AC3 2.0, what is the optimal bitrate to go for? 192kbps? Or maybe higher?
Is your choice, at least 192 like DVD tracks 2.0, but you can use 224 or 256 also.
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Old 14th October 2010, 11:16   #10625  |  Link
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Is it ok to use the -normalize switch when converting to AC3, or is that not recommended?
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Old 14th October 2010, 12:00   #10626  |  Link
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Is it ok to use the -normalize switch when converting to AC3, or is that not recommended?
Is recommended when downmix.
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Old 14th October 2010, 12:42   #10627  |  Link
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Thank you!

Is 256kbps the maximum for 2 channel AC3?
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Old 14th October 2010, 13:57   #10628  |  Link
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Is 256kbps the maximum for 2 channel AC3?
No, it's 640 (!).
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Old 14th October 2010, 14:29   #10629  |  Link
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I realised that 640 is the max for 5.1 AC3, but did not know that was also the max for 2.0 AC3.
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It's probably complete overkill. I think eac3to defaults to 448 for two channel AC3.

I've seen 640 2.0 AC3 occasionally on Blu-rays though.
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As 640kbps equals 106.66kbps per channel for 5.1 AC3 and is considered transparent enough for most people, then for 2.0 I guess 224kbps should offer similar quality?
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As 640kbps equals 106.66kbps per channel for 5.1 AC3 and is considered transparent enough for most people, then for 2.0 I guess 224kbps should offer similar quality?
Only if each channel is treated equally. I don't know how the bits are distributed so I'm not sure what the 2.0 equivalent would be. I suspect the front centre gets a good chunk of the allocation in a 5.1 stream, and the LFE gets very little.
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640kbps / 5 = 128kbps per channel
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Old 14th October 2010, 18:30   #10634  |  Link
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So do not include lfe when working out? So with your method 2.0 AC3 256kbps is equivalent to 5.1 AC3 640kbps in terms of quality?
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So with your method 2.0 AC3 256kbps is equivalent to 5.1 AC3 640kbps in terms of quality?
YES ( or at least the theory says so ).
As TinTime said, the LFE channel consumes a very-very-low bitrate, and this is the reason why we say 5.1 and not simply 6-channel audio.
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Hi guys...I tink i am not the first how asks, but i didnīt find the answer: is it possible to demux only the forced captures of the PGS Subtitles of "Avatar"?! forced and normal are in the same pgs stream in this movie

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eac3to tells you about forced subs but no more. You can then use BDSup2Sub to extract the forced subs.
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eac3to does not fix the delay when I extract wavs from 2 joined m2ts's. It says realizing raw/pcm gaps but that doesn't fix it. Any way to have it auto-fix the delay?
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Can someone please help me?^
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in dts master audio suite you can tick the option to display all 7.1 channel layouts. doing so, theres another setup similar to that of "strange setup" 7.1 tracks which has the 2 additional speakers at the front and not at the back (Lw, Rw instead of Lsr and Rsr). how can we actually be sure that these layouts named as "strange setup" by eac3to are that one with the additional 2 channels at the back and not at the front?
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