01-11-2012, 01:19 AM
Be careful in cranking up the audio bit rate of that transcode to 320kbps. Once you do that, your "universal file" will be incompatible with all iPods/iPhones/AppleTV.
And if you don't intend to play the file on an iPod, you're giving up picture quality on more capable devices such as iPhone4/iPad/AppleTV, ---those can play the "AppleTV" and "AppleTV 2" preset files.
The best sound you can get from a DVD is either the original AC-3 Dolby soundtrack, DTS if present or PCM stereo. Only the latter isn't compressed, but isn't surround either. Handbrake will let you select for example AC-3 passthrough on one of the Apple presets for the second audio choice.
The result will be that if you play it on an AppleTV or iDevice, the regular 160kbps AAC audio plays and the AC-3 track gets ignored, and if you connect to a surround sound receiver, it'll pick out the unfettered AC-3 soundtrack and sound as good as the original DVD! Pretty slick, although it makes your file a little larger.
And if you don't intend to play the file on an iPod, you're giving up picture quality on more capable devices such as iPhone4/iPad/AppleTV, ---those can play the "AppleTV" and "AppleTV 2" preset files.
The best sound you can get from a DVD is either the original AC-3 Dolby soundtrack, DTS if present or PCM stereo. Only the latter isn't compressed, but isn't surround either. Handbrake will let you select for example AC-3 passthrough on one of the Apple presets for the second audio choice.
The result will be that if you play it on an AppleTV or iDevice, the regular 160kbps AAC audio plays and the AC-3 track gets ignored, and if you connect to a surround sound receiver, it'll pick out the unfettered AC-3 soundtrack and sound as good as the original DVD! Pretty slick, although it makes your file a little larger.