#Using mkvtools to add audio track movie#
#Using mkvtools to add audio track mp4#
#Using mkvtools to add audio track tv#

Now, let's see how you can add an AAC audio track to both MKV and MP4 files originally only containing an AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio track. No wonder it's MKV's that MakeMKV rips your discs to and not MP4's. MP4's, unfortunately, are really inferior to MKV's in that they can't hold even common video / audio (for example, Vorbis) formats, let alone the above-mentioned native Blu-ray subtitles (PGS). And even if you do use third-party apps on iDevices, other container formats can only be played back utilizing the vastly superior hardware acceleration only using certain tricks like behind-the-scene remuxing ( dedicated article) – Apple has forbidden the direct hardware decoding of non-native (MP4) files.

#Using mkvtools to add audio track tv#

The latter simply couldn't create MP4's (see next paragraph) out of optical discs because MP4's just can't hold some kinds of data types for example, Blu-ray subtitles ( S_HDMV/PGS).Ģ, MP4's (M4V's and MOV's) are of extremely high importance to iOS and Apple TV users because it's the only format that these devices can play without third-party apps or without jailbreaking, respectively. It's hardware playback-wise, widely supported on the more open mobile operating systems ( Symbian Anna / Belle, Android) and is the native output format of immensely useful DVD / Blu-ray / HD DVD ripper tools like MakeMKV. formats, textual messages for humans etc.) in the same file. Just a quick recap on the two formats:ġ, MKV's are the containers representing the freedom of putting any kind of multimedia content (even the obscurest video, audio, subtitle font, subtitle etc.

#Using mkvtools to add audio track movie#

In the article, I only discuss MP4's (basically, the same as M4V's and MOV's) and MKV's, the two most popular multimedia file (“container”) formats of today when it comes to non-native camera videos or broadcast formats (this means I don't discuss (M)TS files as they aren't used in non-broadcast movie distribution / ripping). It's a more generic article showing you how you can use the best OS X apps to add new audio tracks to a video file so that it has multiple audio tracks. Note that this tutorial is not only meant for folks that have video files with AC-3 audio only. In this tutorial, I explain an alternative for people that don't want to do all the hassles of manually backing up and restoring IPA files (one of the ways of playing those files back) or just want to use the most up-to-date versions of multimedia players in the future too. In my previous article on iOS developers being forced to drop AC-3 support from their players, I've explained you either keep the old versions of your media players or won't be able to listen to the audio track of AC-3-only video files (MP4's, MKV's etc.). Brilliant.UPDATE (06/Oct/2012): I've posted an entirely new section to the second half of the article on MKV audio editing. Blu-Ray player took to it like they were old friends. Language and Other tabs didn’t add anything for me.Ĭlick ok to return to the General tab, then Go!Īnd that’s it! Whole process took 5mins max – produced new file with original video, and now AC3 audio instead of E-AC-3. Then Output – mine was MKV – Filesize “Don’t care” – Splitting “Don’t split” changed bit rate to 640kbps (to match the original) here under AC3 Options Output Channels: Keep Original Channels I left all of these as defaults, other than changing the bitrate Then Audio – under encoder I used FFmpeg AC-3: *scratchpad* then click config next to it to bring up the FFmpeg AC-3 configuration dialogue box: ğirst tab is for Video – only wanted to change audio, so clicked don’t encode video under video setup, and Keep input resolution

Ĝlick config (bottom right of the output section of this General tab) - brings up OneClick configuration dialogue screen

Input your file – Video input – dropdown box, select file, open (brings up spec of files) Ĝlick on MeGUI.exe, then tools, then One Click Encoder. ĝownload and extract (portable version, so doesn’t have to be on C drive) This does it all in a few easy steps – converting and muxing.įor relative novices, like myself, here’s what worked for me: Very impressed with MeGUI – used version 2715 (April 15, 2017), downloaded from your page. Found this thread on a search for “E-AC-3” to AC3, as my Blu-Ray player wouldn’t have anything to do with E-AC-3.