HandBrake

That's what I was afraid of (no way to speed it up)---that's why my idea was to just discard the video and put the rest in a container. Yes, the source is really mono on two channels, at that outrageous bitrate ("=1536000"). Which sounds the same with opus at 64 kb/s. Thanks for the links,...

Thank you. Here it is: HandBrake 1.2.0 (2018121700) OS: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Ram: 4061 MB, GPU Information: Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset - 8.15.10.2302 Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset - 8.15.10.2302 Screen: 1440x900 Temp Dir: C:\Users\M\AppData\Local\Temp\ Install Dir: C...

I'm not using any command-line utilities now, but I suppose I could. What do you suggest? The best thing I've come up with so far is: file with .dts + something called "AudioMuxer" --> dts extracted and converted to .wav .wav + "foobar 2000" --> .opus .opus + (other things) + &qu...

Yes, my final output will be Mastroska.

I tried making the video as small as possible (it allowed 32 x 32), etc. It took 40 minutes to process a 50 minute video. I think about 95% of that is processing the video and not the relatively simple audio conversion.

Thanks!

I understand that Handbrake will not provide a video passthrough feature. Could it provide a "discard video" option? I.e., outputing an mkv with audio and perhaps other tracks, but no video. This would be handy for me as I want to convert DTS tracks to Opus using Handbrake (I don't know of...