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I should have mentioned in my above post that my testing setup is stereo. STR-DH590 Sony receiver and headphones. Downmixing most likely occurs in the receiver.

I encounter a similar issue, either garbled, static, missing dialog or missing audio on some of my rips. I believe it is playback related. After the rip I playback on my Sony s1700 and my Panasonic UB420 for testing purposes. I don't recall having the same issue on both players. No dialog when playe...

I am new to this as well. One thing I look at is file size. The largest is usually the main feature. I also look at run time. Sometimes there are several large files and the run time only differs by a few minutes. This is may be due to different releases. Director's Cut, Theatrical Cut or other. The...

I encountered a similar issue with Amazing Spiderman 2. Using HandBrake the audio was commentary. Using dBpoweramp with the same MakeMKV file I got the correct audio track. I never figured out why but moved on because I got what I wanted using dBpoweramp.

In your example, it seems your source file has a 5.1 channel, AC-3 audio track. Instead of re-encoding that, you could simple use the AC3 Passthrough option for the Codec to copy, without re-encoding, the audio track from the source into your output. Working with another file (Amazing Spiderman 2) ...

I think the Handbrake GUI defaults to AAC stereo output. On the Audio tab, you have to pick 5.1 for the Mixdown to get surround sound. I usually use AC3 for the codec, since it is well supported. I pick 5.1 for the mixdown, I leave the Sampe rate at Auto and pick 640 for the bitrate, which is the m...

I find that two-pass h.264 produces pretty good results with file sizes only slightly bigger than what h.265 produces. Here's a previous discussion on encoding: Reducing file size while keeping features The two pass example in the above link produces a 4.4 GB file from 22 GB or about 20% of the ori...

I have had issues with audio. No audio, or garbled audio and also some other audio issues. I am still new to the game. I have tried reencoding with Handbrake, VLC and dBpoweramp with several different settings. Then I playback in VLC, Panasonic UB420 and a Sony s1700. None of them have consistently ...

I recall something similar, but get that message often with downloaded software (Windows 10 and Edge). I trusted the download and clicked proceed.

Progress (knock on wood) based on the results of one Blu-ray backup file created with MakeMKV. Turns out success didn't breed more success. The next one I tried (The White Queen series) didn't work on my now *fixed* office testing set-up. I replaced the optical out on the Panasonic UB420P with HDMI...

Progress (knock on wood) based on the results of one Blu-ray backup file created with MakeMKV. I had mostly been using the defaults in dBpoweramp Video Converter to reencode to create smaller files. The default for audio is AAC. I changed the audio option to 1 to 1 (no conversion) and worked with A ...

Thanks for the feedback. I should have added in my first post I am using dBpoweramp Video to reduce the size of the files I get from MakeMKV. I have a lot of variables which can get confusing. Now I think I may have a problem with my office testing set-up. I am going from a Panasonic with the HDMI g...

A lot of my Blu-ray back-ups are missing dialog. Using the defaults and also some alterations and when playing back an MKV file on my Panasonic UB820 and UB420P the dialog (center channel?) is missing on at least half of my back-ups. Playing the same file on my Sony s1700 I hear the dialog. I am usi...