![]() The technical strengths of FLAC compared to other lossless formats lie in its ability to be streamed and decoded quickly, independent of compression level. Audio in WAV files can be encoded in a variety of audio coding formats, such as GSM or MP3, to reduce the file size. Though a WAV file can contain compressed audio, the most common WAV audio format is uncompressed audio in the linear pulse code modulation (LPCM) format. ![]() Digital audio compressed by FLAC's algorithm can typically be reduced to 50-60% of its original size and decompress to an identical copy of the original audio data. The usual bitstream encoding is the linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) format.įLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, and is also the name of the reference codec implementation. It is the main format used on Windows systems for raw and typically uncompressed audio. Waveform Audio File Format is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. Of course you can't play a video back in Foobar.Audio/vnd.wave, audio/wav, audio/wave, audio/x-wav A proper WASAPI implementation like Foobar2000 has with it's WASAPI plugin will output stereo if the file is stereo regardless of Windows' setting, 5.1 for a 5.1 file, 7.1 for a 7.1 etc. If you tell Windows you have a 7.1 sound system and then play something with only 2 channels you get 5.1 channels of silence and 2 channels with audio, which will stop you from using any 2-> 7.1 modes on your receiver because it's getting a 7.1 audio stream. They figured if you have your speakers set to 2 channel you only want 2 channel WASAPI output. :rotfl: The whole idea of WASAPI is to output exactly what's in the file to your audio device for processing bypassing all Windows processing. They finally do, and they didn't set it up to override the Windows speaker settings. People have been after them for years to add WASPI support to the audio renderer. eac3to can also convert the audio track directly to multichannel FLAC if that's the way you want to go.įWIW, playing back a mkv file with multichannel PCM audio is a pain on Windows computers thanks to the inept developers of MPC-HC (if that's your playback software like me). ![]() Handbrake isn't the tool I'd be using here. ![]() If your receiver supports Dolby True-HD, I'd demux the video and audio track with eac3to and stick them in a. The listing or the disc at says it has Dolby True-HD 5.1 24/96. It all depends what you want to play it back on. Does anyone with more experience with this have a recommendation on how to best preserve the audio tracks? When I want to play back this file later I suspect my receiver will need to understand what to do with this FLAC encoding and may possibly work but if it was the raw LPCM this might be better. I'm converting right now and turning the LPCM into a 24-bit FLAC but I'm not convinced this is the best way to do this to preserve the best audio. With other audio formats (DTS, DTS-HD, etc) I would just select a pass-through for their type but for LPCM there isn't a matching pass-through that I can see. I've extracted the contents of the Blu ray using AnyDVD-HD and while exploring audio options under Handbrake I see several options to extract. I just got the Blu ray Between The Lines: Sara Bareilles Live At The Filmore and I've been exploring ripping it and converting it into a media file inside an mkv container with H.264 encoding for the video.
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