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lisamelton / other_video_transcoding

Other tools to transcode videos.
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No copy-audio option in other_video_transcoding #136

Closed sweaver2 closed 2 years ago

sweaver2 commented 2 years ago

Hi Don, I've been using your tool to transcode blu-ray rips, and I really just want to use it to transcode the video but keep the audio track intact. Video transcoding had a flag for --copy-audio, which does not seem present in Other video transcoding.

Is there a way to do full audio passthrough with other video transcoding?

Thank you.

lisamelton commented 2 years ago

@sweaver2 Thanks for using my tools. Yes, there's a way to copy original audio tracks with other-transcode. But I don't make it obvious because I strongly discourage the practice. It simply goes against the goal of transcoding into a smaller, more portable format.

If you use other-transcode --help full and look in the "Audio options" section you'll see that there's an audio width that can be specified besides surround and stereo. Just use original for the width and the track will be copied. So, to copy instead of transcoding the main audio track you would add this option and argument to your command line:

--main-audio 1=original

If you only want to copy lossy DTS and DTS-ES audio then you would add then you would add this option to your command line:

--pass-dts

Does that answer your question?

sweaver2 commented 2 years ago

Yes I believe it does, thank you for the info and the quick reply!

lisamelton commented 2 years ago

@sweaver2 No problem and glad to help. I'll close this now then.