Unable to create preset with auto-pass through all audio tracks

[hongkonghero]

Please detail your question or problem in as much detail as possible:
When I try to create a preset that loads all audio (or just English), I select auto-passthrough for all tracks. When I open a source, it displays no audio tracks and each needs to manually be added.

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Handbrake 1.0.7 - MacOS 10.12.6

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N/A - encode works successfully, issue only with creating preset

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[mduell]

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[alex_sisk]

This has perplexed me for months - it used to work!

Now, if Selection Behavior is set to Track 1 - Auto Passthru, you must select a Mixdown option that is not necessarily relevant. If you choose 5.1, you will lose 2 channels from a 7.1 track. And what if you choose 7.1, but the audio track has 5.1 channels? Are you then defining 5.1 tracks as 7.1 in the metadata? (It's not clear.)

Even if MIxdown = 7.1 does just pass through 5.1 tracks untouched, you're still forced to choose a bitrate between 56 and 960. This means compressing uncompressed audio formats like DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD.

I don't understand why this changed when it worked perfectly a while back. (I can't remember exactly when, but I think it was pre-1.0.)

I know exactly what you're talking about, hongkonghero.

HandBrake team - I understand that you require a log for looking into bugs, etc. But this is regarding removal of a feature. (The feature was there many versions ago!), and hongkonghero is wondering why the feature was removed, just as I have been for months! (That's why I came to the forum tonight, and I was not surprised to see this thread right at the top.)

[Deleted User 11865]

The mixdown and bitrate apply to the fallback encoder, for when the input track can't be passed through. It used to be that the default mixdown and bitrate were always used when falling back, but now you can control it.

[alex_sisk]

I see. That explains it. I'll put that into practice right away. Thank you.