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Old 19th May 2019, 14:52   #14835  |  Link
sneaker_ger
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Lossless codecs do have "inherent" bitdepths. In your case it was encoded as 24 bits. But eac3to detects that throughout the complete file all of the respective 8 minor bits are 0s. So it decides to encode to 16 bit instead. This has absolutely no influence on quality.
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