Damn, I stopped actively following the codec scene a long time ago, but I was expecting that an easy 7.1 solution was out there, considering that such systems became widespread years ago.
I'm definitely looking up all the stuff you mentioned, though. RipBot is so convenient, familiar, and time-saving that I became utterly lazy relying on its features. I heard about E-AC3 a while ago but stayed with RipBot's AC3 anyway. Same with better degraining methods like SMDegrain. We discussed it more a month ago and I already did a dozen of jobs using RipBot's built-in denoising methods. Time to get off my butt and take a crash course in newer alternatives. Thanks for the pointers.
EDIT: From the first glance, it looks like E-AC3 supports 7.1 after all. Thanks again for the motivation.
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