MakeMKV AAC-Stereo Profile

[hogger129]

Does anybody know which AAC encoder MakeMKV is using? Is there any way I can pipe it to use the qaac encoder at a set bitrate if I have iTunes installed on my machine? Thanks.

[Dougster]

MakeMKV does not encode anything. It is a decrypter / transcoder.

[hogger129]

MakeMKV does not encode anything. It is a decrypter / transcoder.

Ok. Well, I'm attempting to transcode DTS-HD MA 5.1 > AAC Stereo using the AAC-Stereo profile in MakeMKV. I'm curious which AAC encoder it uses and if there is a way I can tell it to use qaac at a given bitrate.

[Dougster]

MakeMKV does not have any AAC encoders (or any other encoders for that matter). You will have to re-encode the audio. I personally
use Hybrid for qaac encoding.

[roma_turok]

MakeMKV does not have any AAC encoders (or any other encoders for that matter). You will have to re-encode the audio. I personally
use Hybrid for qaac encoding.

When you set to Expert mode in preferences:

[Dougster]

Ah! My bad. Got me thinking there. Just discovered that myself and roma_turok beat me to it. It uses FDK AAC (libfdk.dll or libfdk64.dll).
Unsure of the bitrate though. I'm going to do an experiment here.

[hogger129]

It looked to me like 160kbps. But I was unsure which encoder they were using. I understand FDK to be one of the better ones, but thought QAAC was still ranked #1. I just am curious if there's a way to pipe it out to QAAC instead of using the FDK encoder. I can't stand iTunes, but that AAC encoder they have is good.

[Dougster]

You could use Hybrid encode qaac and just do a pass-through of the video and mux it to the container of your choice. Never knew
MakeMKV could do that. I guess I learned something new. Thanks for waking me up!