AAC MultiCHannel Audio

[EpiCMovie73]

Hello Guys new to this Forum

I wonder i have a slightly old Receiver and it handles up DTS 5.1 but i wonder how will i process AAC audio do i get surround sound or stereo, will it PCM,Pro LOgic, or Digital?

i would like to be able to use that home Cinema system for AAC Movies but i want the Audio to be a least Dolby Digital but ulitmatley DTS.
i read an old thread about converting AAC to DTS/AC3 but i wonder how difficult will it be in that i mean do i need to extract the audio first then convert or does the PopCorn converter do it all instead of me extracting stuff and all?

Best Whishes
Movie73

[sneaker]

If you convert to a lossy format (like DTS or DD) you will only lose quality. If your receiver cannot accept AAC input just output PCM via HDMI. Is your PopCorn not doing this automatically?

[leghorn]

I'm not quite sure, but IMO any up-to-date FFMPEG based encoder can convert AAC to DTS.
If not, and if you don't need 6.1 or 7.1 (maybe even with Atmos), you might want to stick to AC3.

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Or do as sneaker said. If you want to squeeze your audio a little, try FLAC - if supported by your system.

[EpiCMovie73]

Well my Sony is rather Old so no HDMI at all so i guess i have to try put an Movie with 5-6ch AAC on a USB stick connect to my Xbox One and see hopw the receiver out puts it, PCM or at best ProLogic.
i could of Course Watch these AAC Movies connecting my laptop to our TV use the SPDIF connector so i can use the Optical Audio Cable, see on my laptop i have codecs and different video players all the usual ones and Kodi

i´ll try it later and see what happens i´ll let you know what the receiver output it as.
hav e a great day guys

EDIT: well no worries the display showed DTS all channles and LFE so apparently the Xbox One can decode AAC audio i have no other explanation for it what do you guys Think?

[EpiCMovie73]

Also i have Another Question when people talk about connecting HDMI to a receiver lets say i connect my Xbox One to a receiver via HDMI does the receiver have an ouput hdmi for Picture?
I have Always wondered how do i get Picture if i connect a Blu ray player and so forth via HDMi to the receiver

[sneaker]

Also i have Another Question when people talk about connecting HDMI to a receiver lets say i connect my Xbox One to a receiver via HDMI does the receiver have an ouput hdmi for Picture?

Yes. (Some players have 2 HDMI outputs. One to TV for picture and a separate for audio-only to receiver.)

[EpiCMovie73]

Hi guys i didn´t want to cereate a new thread as this qyeston is about Movie and multichannel audio, i wonder why some Movies hav AC-3 640kbps as 6 channel audio isn´t the quality more compressed than real DTS-DTS-HD and so on?
so if i Watch same Movie with AC-3 and DTS will the sound experience be better with DTS than AC-3?

I wish you all a nice evening/day