


However, saving video clips on HDD or mobile SD card for later view is not the optimal solution. Handy free tool.It is a common practice that parents tend to shoot videos for their children from birth to grown-up to record their vital moments. It can also convert FLAC and DTS to AC-3. I used Heartware’s Audio Converter (also known as the Popcorn MKV Converter). However, as you are doing, I long ago converted all my AAC 5.1 files to AC-3. That’s great for the handful of people with an AVR capable of decoding AAC, not so great for regular folk. I think the Live may be bitstreaming the AAC 5.1 instead of downmixing as it used to. Such audio-only transcodes in Mediacode can be completed in minutes instead of hours. However I have found a more reliable solution is to repackage these files in Mediacoder preserving the H.264 video unchanged and transcoding only the AAC audio to AC3.

While the audio is not perfect (i.e… it down-mixed and suffers from occasional pauses) at least there is audio. I backgraded from the Beta to the current stable release 1.02.21 and have a such a file playing now. mp4 files to stereo when the player was set to Digital out. Previous released firmware down-mixed 5.1 AAC audio from.
