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AAC and mostly recordings of VR games I have to first convert the audio track to MP3 for Davinci Resolve to support it.

If you're recording the games why don't you just record them in a better codec?

AAC is pretty horrible quality. Just use PCM, the size difference is nothing compared to the size of the video stream.

That is the onboard recording feature of the Meta Quest, it does have a way to change the video codec but the audio codec is fixed.

I'd also argue that most off the shelf stuff that records videos in any form uses AAC as a default simply because it's ubiquitous and thus has great cross compatibility.

Well, I don't know, nothing really seems to support AAC. I've yet to find anything other than ffmpeg that can read it.

Why not convert to PCM to avoid quality degradation?

It's mostly for youtube shorts that don't get a ton of views in the first place, so I am going for a quick and easy fix that keeps the file size mostly the same.

But you are of course right, if I would go for a professional setup I would not recompress it

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