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bburl
25th August 2011, 16:03
I'm looking for opinions on which audio codec would be the best for using in MKV creation. By best I mean the one that produces good quality and has the least compatibility issues.

I'm creating 8-10 GB x264 rips of my BDs with 2 channel downmixed audio. I've been playing around with nero's AAC, lame MP3, FLAC, and OGG.

some of the problems I've found:

FLAC is huge.
AAC doesn't demux from MKV as well as others, especially if vbr.
OGG gets corrupted sometimes when mkclean.exe (http://www.matroska.org/downloads/mkclean.html) is used. I like using mkclean because it makes seeking really smooth and quick in my player of choice (j.river mediacenter).
AAC and MP3 aren't open source.


Any opinions would be appreciated.

b66pak
25th August 2011, 18:29
use AC3 then...aften encoder (http://aften.sourceforge.net/) is open source...
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mindbomb
26th August 2011, 17:38
try different aac encoders maybe. like quicktime's or winamp's

quicktime appears to be CBR though.

Midzuki
26th August 2011, 20:14
Since you're using 2.0 audio, why not choose MP2 ? Any bitrate between 224kbps and 384kbps will be fine.