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So I ripped all my Blu-rays, and selected AC3 passthrough audio. Was that a good idea?

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Just finished ripping all my Game of Thrones seasons, Blu-ray. I read on forums, and underatood that AC3 passthrough was the best audio option, so I chose to rip and encode with that. However, I just now read on a forum that some Blu-rays don't give surround sound if you use AC3 passthrough. Is this true? Should I re-rip all my blu-rays with new audio settings?

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AC3 is the codec, passthrough just means that whatever is playing back the video will not decode the audio but will pass it through to be decoded by another device.

To use passthrough you need to pass it to something that supports AC3 playback.

 

Codecs really depend on the filesize you're trying to achieve as audio like DTS (PCM) can take up a lot of space at its maximum bitrate (around 1.5-2Mbps).

I personally prefer to keep my audio in DTS/DTT and just strip out the additional audio tracks so i just keep my english one.

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AC3 is the codec, passthrough just means that whatever is playing back the video will not decode the audio but will pass it through to be decoded by another device.

To use passthrough you need to pass it to something that supports AC3 playback.

Codecs really depend on the filesize you're trying to achieve as audio like DTS (PCM) can take up a lot of space at its maximum bitrate (around 1.5-2Mbps).

I personally prefer to keep my audio in DTS/DTT and just strip out the additional audio tracks so i just keep my english one.

Do most media players support the AC3 codec? Are there other better choices when it comes to audio?

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I tend to leave the audio and video as they are when I rip blu-rays. 

MakeMKV's default settings are fine for me, I just remove the non-english audio tracks and all the subtitles (except for the english forced subs, which you'll need if there's some strange language spoken in the film)

 

Sure, a rip will be 20-30GB if you don't encode it, but encoding does affect the image quality.

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