That Sinking Feeling, and how I fought it.I found this link that may be helpful to you:

Honestly, I have never tried playing it through WMC, so I don't know whether or not it has the proper codec to play the 5.1 AC3 audio.Ī quick Google search seems to indicate WMC does not have codecs for 5.1 AC3 audio. I use Plex as my HTPC and it plays it fine. Handbrake has audio passthrough options and I use those. I'm hoping that the forthcoming VLC Player for Windows Phone fixes that issue for me, but I'm still curious how you made that work. Unfortunately, my smartphone plays MP4 happily all day long, but will not play MKV, so I have to make a second rip to MP4 for any movies I want to take with me on the phone. It works really well with an MKV container, though. I've never been able to successfully get AC3 or DTS passthrough to work with an MP4 container. I've been using Handbrake for years to rip my DVD/BD collection to my Windows Media Center HTPC. It is pretty much obsolete now.ĭave, I'm curious how you made this work. I would discourage using the AVI container.

An average DVD movie ends up around 1 GB when done. I rip to H.264 video codec and AC3 or DTS audio pass through. I use Handbrake for all my DVD & BD rips for my media server.

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