2009-03-02, 07:17
@sion28 - I don't know of any way to cut .ac3... I will research and see what I can come up with!!
@punkjumper1 - The reason why it came out as AAC is because that is what it was encoded in first place. The "auto Encode" and "add additional content" is exactly the same audio format from the .mp4. You can either keep it as that way if you keep it at 2 channel or you can re-encode it to ac3. Just make sure the ac3 setting is to 5.1. Most of the time it was set at 2 channels.
@rashid420 - I would like to hear if you were successful with VideoFab. I have a doubt that it'll work because any h264 video encoder out there usually doesn't work with Xbox because of their h264 settings. (Too complex/powerful for Xbox to run.) But I may be wrong...
And now about .mkv. The only reason why it is very popular is because of its flexible with anything you throw in. I use it because it work very well with .idx and .sub for subtitling purpose whereas .avi and .mp4 does not. Same with chapters setting, and multiple audio tracks. It seems to work better with any h264 codecs too. (In my opinion)
Both .avi and .mp4 can work with h264, but .avi is only limited to video and audio track. That's it. .mp4 can do chapters and some cool metadatas. (As far as I think) Feel free to put them in whatever container you want it to be. Just don't come here and complain if it doesn't work because the guide is mostly about .mkv container. Go to Doom9 forum and ask why it doesn't work.
So, do a test, if it work for you, great. If not, use different container.
@punkjumper1 - The reason why it came out as AAC is because that is what it was encoded in first place. The "auto Encode" and "add additional content" is exactly the same audio format from the .mp4. You can either keep it as that way if you keep it at 2 channel or you can re-encode it to ac3. Just make sure the ac3 setting is to 5.1. Most of the time it was set at 2 channels.
@rashid420 - I would like to hear if you were successful with VideoFab. I have a doubt that it'll work because any h264 video encoder out there usually doesn't work with Xbox because of their h264 settings. (Too complex/powerful for Xbox to run.) But I may be wrong...
And now about .mkv. The only reason why it is very popular is because of its flexible with anything you throw in. I use it because it work very well with .idx and .sub for subtitling purpose whereas .avi and .mp4 does not. Same with chapters setting, and multiple audio tracks. It seems to work better with any h264 codecs too. (In my opinion)
Both .avi and .mp4 can work with h264, but .avi is only limited to video and audio track. That's it. .mp4 can do chapters and some cool metadatas. (As far as I think) Feel free to put them in whatever container you want it to be. Just don't come here and complain if it doesn't work because the guide is mostly about .mkv container. Go to Doom9 forum and ask why it doesn't work.
So, do a test, if it work for you, great. If not, use different container.
