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A real defect in the P4 output, found by the human on ADV.wmv and widened by the RE agent to the whole disc: the disc ships 28 movies in 5.1 WMA Pro (every cutscene, INCLUDING both movies this port needs) and 69 already in stereo. A bare `-ac 2` therefore does two different things and records neither -- stereo passes through, and 5.1 is folded by ffmpeg's DEFAULT matrix. How loudly centre-channel dialogue sits against the music is a content decision, and it was being made by accident and could move under an ffmpeg upgrade. Now stated: ITU-R BS.775, LFE dropped, normalised by 1/(1+2*sqrt(1/2)) = 0.4142. It appears in the recorded command, so the manifest determines the output. MEASURED rather than chosen by taste, and the measurement is the interesting part: the explicit matrix and ffmpeg's inherited default differ by a residual of -91 dB -- about one LSB at 16-bit -- with peak and mean agreeing to 0.1 dB. So ffmpeg's default IS this matrix, and the audio does not change; what changes is that the manifest now says which matrix. The UNnormalised textbook form was measured too and clips at 0.0 dBFS, which is why the scaling is there. The filter is applied only to 6-channel sources, probed per file with ffprobe, so a stereo source is never run through a matrix referencing channels it lacks. Also: encode to a temp name and rename on success. ffprobe read a mid-write .ogv as 33 s against a 137 s source -- no error, no warning, the exact shape of catastrophic truncation. The filesystem is shared with the RE agent, so that is a race, not an edge case, and a half-written file must never be visible under its final name. tools/verify-video-audio answers the second of the three questions docs/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md separates: does GODOT route the audio. An AudioEffectRecord on the Master bus writes Godot's own mixed output to a WAV from a headless run, so "no sound card" was never the obstacle I claimed. It deliberately checks non-silence and level only -- a difference-signal RMS against the source is inconclusive without cross-correlation alignment and an agreed downmix, and would produce a confident wrong number.