Hi, congratulations about the fantastic job, foobar is more than a powerful tool; i have some questions,

- In Foobar, the vorbis encoder seems to be an old one, isn't it? "vorbis_vendor = Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20040629" how could we upgrade it?
- I'm now reading an Audio FAQ at D9, where "The 2.0 stream has a better mix for 2 channels than the 5.1 to 2.0 downmix features offered by AC3 decoding tools" I'm riping a Live DVD ( dvd decrypter streaming mode ) with 3 audios, AC3 2 ch 448, AC3 6 ch 448, and DTS 6 ch 768; I want to transcode it to a Vorbis or MPC 2 ch bitrate about 180-200 with foobar, it seems more easy than other tools like besweet and similars. Which stream should I decode? DTS I think but... could be possible that AC3 2.0 is more optimized for this?
- With Vorbis or Mpc, not lame, Would be better downgrade the audio to 44.1 khz or keep the original 48 khz?

Thanks for all and sorry about my english and for this amount of ( probably ) dumb questions. Any other suggestion will be be apreciated, perhaps i must consider the option of transcode it to Vorbis 5.1 channel from AC3 or DTS ch. streams, but i never did it before.


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If you want to use that audio track for listening on your computer only, I'd suggest you to simply grab the AC3 2.0 track and listen to that (instead of worrying about transcoding / downmixing).

Thanks for the suggest, but unfortunately my hd is not big enough to grab all my dvds in AC3 and this one could be no the only one with this features.

Perhaps somebody could help me.


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AC3 is roughly the same size as MP3.

Yeah, but a lot of DVD ac3 is encoded at 448kbps CBR and he's just like to transcode it to something a little smaller. Seems reasonable to me, though I have no idea myself i'm afraid.

Yes, the size is 300 Mbs for 90 min.