[FFmpeg-user] track vs stream

Gabri Nurtinaz Shally gabri.ns at gmail.com
Fri May 11 13:12:15 CEST 2012


On May 11, 2012 12:25 PM, "Tarun singhal" <tsinghal18 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Please let me know what is the difference between audio track and audio
> stream. Are both same or different?
> Can one audio stream contain several audio tracks.
>

may be what you want to ask is Audio Track vs Audio Channel, since Audio
Track n Audio Stream is the same thing.

one video file can have multiple audio track, and inside an audio track,
there is multiple audio channel with a preset configuration, be it a mono,
stereo, surround, etc.

on a video file with multiple track, each track usually have different
purpose, e.g. as a suplementary language, commentary, etc. each track can
have different configuration of channel, sampling rate, or bitrate.


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