Oh so many formats..

[primerump]

Hi,

I'm an audio noob here, so please be gentle with me.. LOL..

I am currently re-coding my blurays to x264 and wondered what audio format I should use to conserve space.. can anyone suggest an audio format that uses the least space but preserves quality for 5.1 type audio ?

thanks

[fibbingbear]

I'd recommend AAC, especially Nero's encoder. Although subjective, many feel that the best quality per bit is probably going to be OGG, but that's not supported in a lot of hardware. AAC is pretty close to OGG in quality, and it has some hardware support. Best compromise imo.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I'd recommend AAC, especially Nero's encoder. Although subjective, many feel that the best quality per bit is probably going to be OGG, but that's not supported in a lot of hardware. AAC is pretty cloase to OGG in quality, and it has some hardware support. Best compromise imo.

OGG is not an audio format, but a container. I think your are referring to Vorbis, which commonly is stored in an OGG container ;)

[EPiPH0NE]

Hi,

I'm an audio noob here, so please be gentle with me.. LOL..

I am currently re-coding my blurays to x264 and wondered what audio format I should use to conserve space.. can anyone suggest an audio format that uses the least space but preserves quality for 5.1 type audio ?

thanks


If you using an AVR that can handle DD/DTS use that.

[fibbingbear]

OGG is not an audio format, but a container. I think your are referring to Vorbis, which commonly is stored in an OGG container ;)

You're totally right; but in my defense, I've only ever seen OGG used for Vorbis (I guess there's OGG Theora but it's rare) and it doesn't help that the audio encoder is called "oggenc" :-p

[Ranguvar]

There's also Speex, Dirac, and FLAC (sometimes) that are used in OGG :p

[sehgal.v7]

My preference goes to FLAC first :-)