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Old 29th September 2014, 16:08   #12825  |  Link
JimmyBarnes
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tebasuna51 View Post
Of course you can recode to AC3 with ffmpeg, but a 7.1 must be downmix to 5.1 and is always better extract the AC3 included in the track with tsMuxeR (like I say in a precedent post).

BTW:

ffmpeg -i 00000.m2ts -map 0:1 -acodec ac3 -ac 6 -ab 640000 recoded.ac3
Thanks for the above.

Does this actually convert the entire THD+AC3 to AC3 (rather than simply extract the AC3 stream, as you suggest with tsMuxeR)?
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