448 5.1 is about the same as 160 kbps stereo as it contains 5.1 channels, but if you are doing a stereo (or analog Dolby surround) mixdown, I use ~256 kbps. 448 kbps used on DVDs, is fully compatible with all existing Dolby Digital.
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256-384 AC3 is higher quality and if you see that, use a similar bitrate for AAC to realize the incremental improvement in quality. Dolby Digital Plus is Dolbys new-generation multichannel audio technology. The disappearance of a young boy sparks a chain of events leading the residents of the small town of Hawkins to uncover a government conspiracy and a supernatural mystery which will not only shatter all semblance of normality, but also threaten their very existence. I try to recompress the video only and keep the audio in it's original AC3 for computer playback, though you need to convert to AAC for iThing playback.įor more recentl releases, there are encodes which use 256-384 AC3 stereo or 448 5.1 surround. Sub for the Netflix Original series: Stranger Things. Listening quality comparisons have generally set similar sound quality for 192 AC3, 160 MP3 and 128 AAC.Ĭonverting to 160 AAC will result in minimal loss of quality though as always there is a slight reduction in quality as a result of recompressing the data. There are three factors that determine audio quality in the Triton Streaming Console: Encoding format (AAC or MP3) Bitrate in kbps (kilobits. Many DVDs of older or TV-based productions are just 192 kbps AC3 2.0 (ie: stereo only AC3).