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4.3.4 Configuring encoders

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This dialog exists in the global settings as well as in the per track settings. It describes a complete encoder setup.

There are 2 different modes for encoding: Either all A/V streams go into one file, or into separate files (i.e. it's not possible to group some A/V streams and write others separately). You control this by clicking “Encode audio into video file” checkbox. Subtitles can be written into the video file, or into a separate file. You can select this independently for text- and overlay subtitles with the corresponding checkbuttons.

Note, that some streams are always written to a separate file (regardless of the check-box settings) if the video encoder plugin doesn't support streams of that type.

Then, you can set encoder plugins for each stream type. The menu selects the plugin. Right of the menu, there are buttons for displaying plugin info ../img/info_16.png and setting global options ../img/config_16.png (like ID3 generation or fileformat flavours). These settings can be changed on a per track basis in the track configuration dialog.

Finally, there are the default audio- ../img/audio_16.png and video ../img/video_16.png settings. Here, you mostly configure codec parameters like bitrates, etc. To further tweak these settings of a per stream base, you'll find the same options for each stream in the track configuration dialog.