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6 channel aac to ac3 realtime encoding - pyrates - 2009-02-25
When I play back videos with 6 channel aac sound, it gets down mixed to stereo. Quicktime trailers are encoded that way sometimes. But when I play back videos with 6 channel ac3 sound, it gets sent out to my receiver as ac3 so it can be decoded there.
Is there a way for me to set any audio in a video to be encoded in real time to ac3 keeping the original channels without any downmixing? I know I can do this in windows with ac3filter. And I'd like to do this in linux.
- jmarshall - 2009-02-25
Not currently.
phi2039 is currently reworking the audio output stages so that we can add stuff like this in an easily extensible manner. Still a fair way to go before it'll get to the point where it can address this. Good things (done properly) take time.
Cheers,
Jonathan