# Audio passthrough setting for handbrake?

**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/audio-passthrough-setting-for-handbrake/3071
**Category:** Profiles
**Created:** [September 5, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/audio-passthrough-setting-for-handbrake/3071 "2019-09-05T21:38:20Z")
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### Author: ![lightsout](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e9a140/32.png) [@lightsout](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/lightsout)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/audio-passthrough-setting-for-handbrake/3071/1 "2019-09-05T21:38:20Z")

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I appreciate all the help recently. Have my profiles pretty dialed in. I can’t get right the audio passthrough setting for handbrake. Basically I want the audio to be untouched. These are TV recordings so it’s ac3. Can someone help me out?

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### Author: ![lightsout](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e9a140/32.png) [@lightsout](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/lightsout)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/audio-passthrough-setting-for-handbrake/3071/2 "2019-09-06T15:07:57Z")

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So I tried this and something odd happened. I set the bottom one at 160 because the files are 384, if it simply passed through I wanted to be certain, so if it fel back to the bottom it would be 160. But the file came out at 224??

handbrake-audio=copy:ac3 -a 1,2,3,4,5  
handbrake-audioac3=-E ffac3 -R auto -B 160 -D 0 -a 1,2,3,4,5

Heres the log  
2019-09-06T07:50:53 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Handbrake --\> [07:50:53] + decoder: English (AC3) (5.1 ch) (track 1, id 0x101)  
2019-09-06T07:50:53 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Handbrake --\> [07:50:53] + bitrate: 384 kbps, samplerate: 48000 Hz  
2019-09-06T07:50:53 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Handbrake --\> [07:50:53] + mixdown: 5.1 Channels  
2019-09-06T07:50:53 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Handbrake --\> [07:50:53] + dynamic range compression: 2.500000  
2019-09-06T07:50:53 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Handbrake --\> [07:50:53] + dither: triangular  
2019-09-06T07:50:53 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Handbrake --\> [07:50:53] + encoder: AC3 (libavcodec)  
2019-09-06T07:50:53 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Handbrake --\> [07:50:53] + bitrate: 224 kbps, samplerate: 48000 Hz

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### Author: ![Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/audio-passthrough-setting-for-handbrake/3071/3 "2019-09-06T16:04:50Z")

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> [@lightsout](#):
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> handbrake-audio=copy:ac3 -a 1,2,3,4,5

This isn’t valid, try:  
`handbrake-audio=-E copy -a 1,2,3,4,5`

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### Author: ![lightsout](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e9a140/32.png) [@lightsout](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/lightsout)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/audio-passthrough-setting-for-handbrake/3071/4 "2019-09-06T17:31:28Z")

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> [@Goose](#):
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> handbrake-audio=-E copy -a 1,2,3,4,5

Thanks I appreciate it. Testing now.

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### Author: ![lightsout](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e9a140/32.png) [@lightsout](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/lightsout)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/audio-passthrough-setting-for-handbrake/3071/5 "2019-09-06T17:51:53Z")

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That did it, Goose thanks a lot. Appreciate the help as always. Not sure why I waited so long to get all this setup automatically. Much nicer this way.