DVD-R with ac3 on normal tv?

[ianinmalaga]

Hi there,

I have been doing quite a few rips of dvd's with the ac3 soundtrack only and I was wondering what happens if these are played on a standalone dvd player connected via either the stereo audio or UHF/VHF to the tv

Is the sound downmixed by the standalone player from ac3 to either mono/stereo or is it going to sound strange?

If it is downmixed, is it the standalone dvd player that does this and do all dvd players do it?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Ian

[auenf]

im guessing your player is picking up the disc as a 'mp3' disc or just a 'media' disc, and is letting you browse/play the files on the disc.

now i would take another guess and say that the dvd player would be using the same decoding routines for a standalone .ac3 as it would a ac3 in a dvd.

this is of course assuming your dvd player will play ac3 in file mode.

Enf...

[slk001]

The standalone player recovers the audio from the .AC3 stream and sends a pure audio signal to the inputs of your TV.


Oops, sorry, didn't see that "only" part. So you are trying to send an .AC3 only file to your player? Does it have to be .AC3? I know that a lot of players can handle a .MP3 audio file.

[jdobbs]

ianinmalaga

I assume that you are saying you do rips with the video and only AC3 audio. If so -- you are doing it the right way. AC3 is the standard for DVD audio.

The AC3 is downmixed by the player. If it is stored as DD 5.2 and you are playing it through the RCA jacks it is downmixed to stereo with (almost always) surround sound encoding and output as analog through the jacks. If it is stored as Dolby 2.0 -- it is simply converted to analog and played (these typically are surround encoded already).

It shouldn't sound strange -- this downmixing is a part of the DVD design and all players must do it.

[ianinmalaga]

Thanks jdobbs..

Thanks exactly what I was hoping.. brilliant..

Thanks again for the confirmation

Ian