2010-12-01, 03:05
Try removing the 2 ch. track and see if that works
sceaga Wrote:PS - It's too bad the HandBrake preset for AppleTV doesn't make the pass-through the 1st audio track ... DOH!
sceaga Wrote:Please note, with the swapped audio tracks, the audio does now automatically play the 6 channel pass-through audio now:
Code:11:46:17 T:2959171584 M:725204992 NOTICE: Creating audio device with codec id: 86020, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, pass-through
sceaga Wrote:D-tyme: if you look at previous posts I've already tried that and was unsuccessful. I've tried ac3 first, ac3 second, and ac3 only and none show 5.1 despite the fact that the audio file has 6ch audio.
sceaga Wrote:I have done exactly those steps several times now and it doea not work. I have verified with mediainfo that the single ac3 track encoding has 6 channels. Also, if you read all the postings about ac3 passthrough playback you will see that they are actually output as a hack of S/PDIF of 2 channels which is what my output shows.
What can I post to prove to you that I've done exactly what you state and prove that it does not work?
sceaga Wrote:This is obviously not a solution for me, as the AppleTV cannot handle MKV files very well.
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : ac-3
Duration : 20s 832ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 1.11 MiB (38%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2010-12-01 06:39:05
Tagged date : UTC 2010-12-01 06:39:20
sceaga Wrote:tuckbodi: Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't have access to a Windows box to use / run Ember. It would be nice to know what it's tagging in the file to make it show up correctly, as then I could add the appropriate info to my M4V files.
tuckbodi Wrote:Are you on a Mac? If you have an Intel box you can boot into Bootcamp and run Ember or use VMWare or Parallels. That's how I do it and Ember rocks. Seriously, it somehow fixed my display of 5.1 vs. 2.0. And this is with files with first track AAC stereo and second track of AC3 Passthru.
Codec ID : ac-3
Codec ID : A_AC3
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC