Noobie Question MP4 audio output 5.1

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@cadprofessor

order=handbrake,ffmpeg,mencoder

Your profile is using the handbrake encoder, if that fails it falls back to ffmpeg and then to mencoder

@cadprofessor

–> handbrake-audio=-E faac -R auto -B 160 -D 0 -a 1,2,3,4,5
–> handbrake-audioac3=-E faac -R auto -B 256 -D 0 -a 1,2,3,4,5

Your handbrake profile audio is set to encode the audio to AAC, if you want it to use ac3 instead of aac then change faac to ffac3

and similarly for ffmpeg, it’s also using AAC audio

@cadprofessor

–> ffmpeg-audio=-acodec libfdk_aac -ab 160k -cutoff 18000 -map 0:a
–> ffmpeg-audioac3=-acodec libfdk_aac -ab 256k -cutoff 18000 -map 0:a

Change libfdk_aac to ac3

You can refer to the MKV profiles for samples if needed, they use AC3 audio instead of AAC audio.

It’s better to create a new profile with a new name than to change existing profiles.