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Originally Posted by tormento
Queueing to this opened topic.
I am thinking about starting to convert all the THD/DTSHD tracks in a movie to EAC3 instead of AC3, as I did since some years so far.
Given I would anyway convert to 5.1 (FFMPEG limitation) and 640 kbps, should I get some benefits or EAC3 has the same algorithms of AC3 plus just the increase in bitrate and channel numbers?
I have been thorougly searching thru the web but no testing has been done AFAIK, especially with FFMPEG instead of commercial encoders.
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You will get slightly better quality and AC-3. FFmpeg's implements all algo's that E-AC-3 offers. Channel numbers is still restricted to 5.1 max, though