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Old 16th January 2019, 21:11   #16597  |  Link
sneaker_ger
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Originally Posted by Ryushin View Post
So around 2012 I had to give up using AAC and switched everything to AC3 640 or pass through the native AC3 stream. No doubt that AAC is a better audio compression format in every way compared to AC3, but AV receivers cannot process it without converting it to PCM or something like plex transcoding it to AC3 before sending it to the device.
Converting to PCM isn't a problem when using HDMI. Only SPDIF is typically limited to 2 channel PCM.
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