DTS or AC3 to AAC Options

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Hello there!

I'm from Germany so please excuse me if my english isn't very well. I currently work on something for my university. I'm gonna right down the process of converting an HD .mkv file to an iTunes friendly .m4v. The goal will be to have a file at the end which can be played on most Apple devices. So when there's one 5.1 audio track as a DTS or AC3 file in the mkv I want to have one 5.1 AAC audio track and one in stereo for the mobile devices. In the last two days I've been looking around for the best options and encoders in this forum and in the wiki, but I'm not quite sure what to use and what's even more important: why I should use that?

For this process I'll use a mac. I've read that the Nero Encoder give the best results but since it doesn't excepts .dts or .ac3 files I don't know what I could do. Should I convert the .dts file f.e. first into another format so that NeroAAC would recognize it? Wouldn't that mean a loose of Quality? That's by the way also a very important thing for my work. To know what would be the best options in the encoder and to know how big the quality loss could be etc.

I hope you can point me into some directions and tell me something relevant for my topic. Have a good night everyone!

[smok3]

quicktime takes anything this days, afaik, so handbrake doesn't really "provide" anything (actually it provides a new logical layer between user and x264, trying to be smarter than x264 itself), got it? Handbrake also provides a year old binary. p.s. And you dont have to explain anything to me, explain that to the op (i would not bother with my van app, if i thought handbrake is cute)

This post has been edited by smok3: Nov 3 2011, 21:25