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Old 16th October 2017, 01:46   #14408  |  Link
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Originally Posted by Megalith View Post
I am still confused about how eac3to handles Atmos tracks, though. Is an Atmos track the same thing as a TrueHD track, or is eac3to converting Atmos to a TrueHD track for compatibility reasons?
A Atmos track is a TrueHD track with extra metadata than only a receiver with Atmos support (and ceiling speakers) can understand.

The metadata remain in thd extracted by eac3to/mkvextract.
Standard receivers ignore that metadata.
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