[MEncoder-users] which audio codec?

[bayrouni]

RC wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:34:12 +0200
> bayrouni <bayrouni at brutele.be> wrote:
> 
>> I read something about aac, but aac is not free, isn't it? and it will
>> lose the number of channels, isn't it?
> 
> Very few audio codecs are patent free.  That's life.
> 
>> and what about using musepack or flac  format, aren'nt they good
>> choice ?
> 
> It's not a good idea to use musepack in any container.  It's not a
> normal, packetized format, though that seems to be planned.
> 
> FLAC is lossless, meaning your audio will be huge.
>> The ideal (for me) is to keep the number of channels if possible, but
>> it  not mandatory.  I care about quality...
> 
> You can't get better quality than keeping the AC3.  If it takes too much
> space, you can try other codecs, but very few are efficient at encoding
> more than 2 channels.
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Thank you for all this answers.

Okay, I just decided to keep high quality videos with ac3, and encode 
the others using only 2 channels.

I think, I shall use ogg format for this second proposal.
Other suggestions are welcome


Thank you again