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Thank you both! The reason this has come up is I have a few thousand videos to be encoded and they are running mp3 audio tracks - something which we can't use in our streams. So we have to switch over to AAC and I was just thinking about what would be most optimal for the lossy-to-lossy transcoding....

Thank you for that information. That really does make a lot of sense.

Thank you both Woodstock and JohnAStebbins - I'm curious why I shouldn't just re-use the same bitrate. I have been doing that for my entire life and I figured it was appropriate.

Is there some kind of conversion scale I should use when going from a 192kbit mp3 to AAC or HE-AAC?

I'm just curious as to what is preventing it from being used on other systems. Is there not a good implementation of an HE-AAC encoder for others?

FYI - I'm certainly a Mac guy and I do have access to this feature but I really am curious.

Description of problem or question Can HandBrake automatically set the sample rate and bitrate of audio tracks to match the source? I have to convert a large number of videos that are from different sources. Their audio tracks are all using different encodings as well. Can I setup a preset that wil...