DVD2SVCD Build 6. Still producing Dolby Surround?

[SupaCoopa]

Hi all.
I have read about the new DVD2SVCD Build 6 using a "new" single program for all audio conversion and I'm wondering if it still performs Dolby Digital -> Dolby Surround downmix.
I think the channel downmix thing is handled by DVD2AVI which is used anyway, so the resulting audio track still contain surround info. Is this true?

Cheers

[Doom9]

besweet is used for ac3 -> mp2 conversion.. it does everything that was done using a lot of other programs before.. it's faster, doesn't require as much temp space and it offers even higher quality.. and of course it does the dolby surround decoding

[stazzy]

Hi!
I just viewed this thread and I was wondering if sth was wrong with my encoding process because when I load the svcd in the DVD Player (amoisonic 8506) it uses automatically only the LR speakers. I manualy enable the normal dolby surrong sound field and I get sound from L,R,C and Subwoofer channel. No sound from the rear seakers. (My AV receiver is Sony STR 940)
Is this behavior right? Is there a way to get my rear speakers work?

(I have connected the DVD player with the receiver through an optical cable (TOSSlink) )

I have also read some other threads about Dolby 5.1, prologic but I still have not figured out the answer!

Plz give me faqs to read to figure out what I am doing wrong...
Or just reply :)

If I select Joint Stereo or Dual Channel from DVD2SVCD Audio Tab would that help?
If I don't demux an ac3 file and instead of it use decode and dolby sorround downmix option in DVD2AVI, would that help?

Thanx a lot,
Stazzy

[JulCat]

Stazzy:

Not all the movies have very much information in the rear chanels, if you are geting the center chanel, then the decoding from dolby surround to dolby prologic is taking place, try with other movie, action movies tend to have more informattion on the surround chanels,
also verify if your receiver have the surround chanels active, in some receivers you can turn the surround center an subwoofer channels on and off.

[markrb]

I have an Onkyo 898 reciever and I get information in the rears.
Like JulCat said not every movie has much sound in the years.
If you want to test try these movies and scenes as they do have much information in all the speakers:

Gladiator (any fight scene in a stadium)
Tomb Raider (any action scene)
Phantom Menance (Pod Race Scene, although not as much as you might think)

I think you can see a pattern. Loud action movies.

If you are getting a real center channel then it is at least doing part of the Dolby Stereo decode.


Mark