{"id":24,"date":"2008-11-09T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T10:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-11-09T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T10:32:44","slug":"sklsdjasfg-y-r-u-using-51-flac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"SKLSDJASFG y r u using 5.1 FLAC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people&#8217;s reaction to seeing surround (5.1 or better) FLAC used in releases tends to be something like &#8220;lol wut&#8221;. Therefore I&#8217;m gonna go ahead and write up a small explanation that I can link people to so I don&#8217;t have to repeat myself over and over on IRC all the time.<\/p>\n<p>If you see 5.1 FLAC in some HD release it most likely means that the release in question is a Bluray rip and the source had Dolby TrueHD audio. TrueHD is the successor to AC3; unlike AC3 and DTS it is a <em>lossless<\/em> audio codec. In theory it can have up to 14 channels (max on a Bluray is 8), but most Blurays only use 6 (front left, front right, center, rear left, rear right, subwoofer). Since it&#8217;s nice to keep the original audio and TrueHD currently cannot be muxed into MKV, the easiest option is just to use eac3to to transcode it to another lossless codec, namely FLAC, which is open source and fairly well supported in most places that support MKV. Incidentally FLAC compresses better than TrueHD does anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>tl;dr:<\/strong> TrueHD is lossless but doesn&#8217;t fit in MKV, so some people who like keeping the audio untouched use FLAC instead, which compresses better (and does fit in MKV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people&#8217;s reaction to seeing surround (5.1 or better) FLAC used in releases tends to be something like &#8220;lol wut&#8221;. Therefore I&#8217;m gonna go ahead and write up a small explanation that I can link people to so I don&#8217;t have to repeat myself over and over on IRC all the time. If you see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encoding","tag-encoding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}