
- 448 kbps ac3 5.1 vs stereo movie#
- 448 kbps ac3 5.1 vs stereo install#
- 448 kbps ac3 5.1 vs stereo 64 Bit#
Works great, and my AAC sound is acceptable again! Let me know if you want a copy, I guess I can PM a link.
448 kbps ac3 5.1 vs stereo install#
It's just a dll file that you drop into your existing Handbrake install directory (overwriting the old one)
448 kbps ac3 5.1 vs stereo 64 Bit#
It was a pain in the ass, having to download and install a virtual machine, install Linux on that, and then all the frustrating Linux bullshit-frustrating for me, at least.īut it was well worth it-I was able to compile a 64 bit version of Handbrake for Windows 7 (might work on other versions of Windows too-I'm not sure) with the superior AAC (FDK) enabled.
448 kbps ac3 5.1 vs stereo movie#
I also noticed any music in the movie sounded worse at 192 than some of my old 96kbps mp3 files! So I researched and found out about the need to compile my own version with AAC (FDK) enabled.

Yeah, I went through this a few months ago when I started noticing that the movies I was encoding (1st track stereo AAC at 192kbps, 2nd track 5.1 AC3 at 320kbps) had bad sound sometimes-like during a scene where it was raining. Got me thinking, maybe there's an "unofficial" version out there that has the good one baked in? Anyone have any light to shine on this subject? Thanks for the info! I did read someone mention that if they wanted the "good" encoder in Handbrake, they could compile their own and it would work fine- they just couldn't officially release an executable like that due to open-source license restrictions. Additionally, why is AAC still the default if the encoder is so potentially bad?

I did some google digging, and I think if I understand this correctly, Handbrake had to resort to a poor aac encoder because of a licensing issue? I couldn't track down when this happened or if it has been resolved since then, so I guess I'm looking for more information and possible ways to work around it. These same or similar settings in other video applications (Adobe, Vegas, etc) do alright, and in at least one of my experiments the original is an AAC codec of a LOWER bitrate, so its something about the encoder Handbrake is using. I've been trying to figure out why certain videos I encode for my car's media player sound bad when the audio gets complicated (almost like a bad bitrate "underwater" effect), and after initially thinking it was a hardware issue with the player, I discovered that Handbrake was muddying up the audio with the default AAC encoder settings (the originals sound fine, the encoded ones exhibit the issue).
