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=mikk=
8th February 2007, 15:40
Hi there!

i have quite a large collection of mkv/ac3 files i want to convert into mkv/aac. i havenīt touched the audio before because i wanted to keep the quality of ac3 and didnīt wanted to try the early versions of (ogg/aac)5.1.
but now i consider reencoding the audio tracks for my collection.

so now are my questions:

1. which tool would allow me a batch processing of my files without me touching every file manually?

2. which settings are recommendable for these situations:
a) 5.1: best quality for standard movies: is reencoding recommendable at all? or would the bitrates for perfect quality not be smaller than from the original ac3 files?
b) 5.1->2.0: something like simpsons for example: 5.1 isnīt really used anyway here so quality could be set relatively low i think? makes encoding to PLII sense (have seen the setting in megui/neroaac) & how do i have to play these to make use of it afterwards (using mediacenter for playback - so no SAP support needed)

thansk for your tips!

Pookie
9th February 2007, 03:57
foobar with matroska and ac3 input plugins

http://foobar.s53.xrea.com/fbwiki/index.php?Input

=mikk=
11th February 2007, 00:21
thank you - iīll take a look