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More video streaming with 5.1 sound will help music in surround sound prosper!

It is a great pleasure to present 2 songs from Stick Men's 'Prog Noir' never before mixed in surround but now in 5.1 and quad. Here is the 5.1 sound added to mp4 videos as 480 kbps ac3 audio:
https://surroundmusic.one/video-streaming480p/
Those you you with a fast internet connection might try them as 720p or 1080p videos!

Please let me know if you got problems with the streaming! I would be grateful for all help with letting music in surround sound prosper!:)
 
Thanks for sharing! I got all of the other stuff too. They all sound really great with lots of discrete stuff going on, but I did notice a few things. First off, I tried streaming them and they only played in 2.0 stereo(might be my configuration of my setup), but I right clicked on the videos while they were playing and selected 'Save video as...', and when they downloaded, I noticed that they were all in 5.1 AAC audio and not AC3(I actually prefer AAC over AC3 at the same given bit-rate. I think AAC is more efficient). Also, all of the 1080p videos actually have lower audio bit-rates than the 720p or 480p versions(No problem, I will just mux the 1080p video with the higher bit-rate audio):

Interstellar Sequence - Electronic Brain:
(480p) = 488kbps AAC
(720p) = 488kbps AAC
(1080p)= 320kbps AAC
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Interstellar Sequence - Impulse:
(720p) = 487kbps AAC
(1080p)= 317kbps AAC
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Odyssey - Emphasis:
(720p) = 474kbps AAC
Version listed as 1080p is in fact the exact same file as the other - (720p) = 474kbps AAC
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Stick Men - Prog Noir:
(480p) = 482kbps AAC
(720p) = 482kbps AAC
(1080p)= 318kbps AAC
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Stick Men - The Tempest:
(480p) = 494kbps AAC
(720p) = 494kbps AAC
(1080p)= 319kbps AAC
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Those were all of the files that I found available on there.

All that aside, this is some really, really awesome stuff! All of it has great music, fidelity, and surround. I highly recommend everyone to check this stuff out! Thanks again!
 
Thanks a lot gentlemen!
I am now correcting the pages.

I have been using 'VideoPad Video Editor' to add the surround sound to the videoes and 320 kbps aac is the highest quality setting it can give. Funny that 720p and 480p the gives higher quality than in 1080p!
If some of you know (not too expensive programs) that can add higher quality sound to mp4 videoes then let me please know!

MKV movies with mc flac can't been streamed by any webside or browser I know, but mp4 (with mc aac) can and works fine!
 
quick and dirty I pulled the audio from StickMen-TheTempest_(480p).mp4 and used ffmpeg to mux it in with StickMen-TheTempest(LyricVideo).mp4.
ffmpeg -y -i 480v.mp4 -i 480a.mka -c:v copy -c:a aac -strict -2 test.mp4
I show 381 kb/s on the original and 341 kb/s on the new one. I bet a little playing with it and there is probably a better command line to use for this to get the full 494 kb/s.

Oh, ffmpeg is free.

ffmpeg -i "StickMen-TheTempest(LyricVideo).mp4"
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, 5.1, fltp, 318 kb/s (default)

ffmpeg -i test.mp4
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, 5.1, fltp, 341 kb/s (default)
 
OK, that was easier than I thought. By default it will take the highest stream from each so I didn't have to do any channel mapping.
ffmpeg -i 480v.mp4 -i 480a.mka -c:a copy test3.mp4
-i include the video file
-i include the audio file
-c:a copy copy the audio stream without any processing
test3.mp4 is the output file name.

ffmpeg says this about the new file: Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, 5.1, fltp, 493 kb/s (default)
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Sound Forge Pro 11 shows everything looking good.
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