Why are 5.1 DD-WAVs always 640 Kbps with BeSweet?

[JohnnyGE]

When I try to make with "BeSure 1.2" a "DD-WAV" or with "BeSweetGUI" a "5.1 DD-WAV", the ac3enc uses always 640 Kbps (see log). - Why?
My soundsystem seems not to support such a high bitrate.

Is there a possiblity to set BeSweet to let the output file in 448 Kbps. My target is to transcode AC3-files by one step.



BeSure.txt:

BeSweet v1.5b29 by DSPguru.
--------------------------
Using azid.dll v1.9 (b922) by Midas (midas@egon.gyaloglo.hu).
Using Shibatch.dll v0.24 by Naoki Shibata & DSPguru (shibatch.sourceforge.net).
Using AC3enc.dll v1.20 (Feb 18 2004) by Fabrice Bellard (http://ffmpeg.org).

Logging start : 05/06/05 , 19:10:39.

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Ich\Desktop\BeSweet 1.4 & 1.5b29\BeSweet.exe -core( -input C:\Title1.ac3 -output C:\DOLBYDIGITAL-Track-001.wav -ddwav -logfilea C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Ich\Desktop\BeSurev1.2\BeSure.txt ) -azid( -g max ) -ssrc( --rate 44100 )

[00:00:00:000] +------- BeSweet -----
[00:00:00:000] | Input : C:\Title1.ac3
[00:00:00:000] | Output: C:\DOLBYDIGITAL-Track-001.wav
[00:00:00:000] | Floating-Point Process: No
[00:00:00:000] +-------- AZID -------
[00:00:00:000] | Input Channels Mode: 3/2, Bitrate: 448kbps
[00:00:00:000] | Output Stereo mode: Dolby surround compatible
[00:00:00:000] | Total Gain: 12.593dB, Compression: None
[00:00:00:000] | LFE levels: To LR -INF, To LFE 0.0dB
[00:00:00:000] | Center mix level: BSI
[00:00:00:000] | Surround mix level: BSI
[00:00:00:000] | Dialog normalization: No
[00:00:00:000] | Rear channels filtering: No
[00:00:00:000] +------ Shibatch -----
[00:00:00:000] | Source Sample-Rate: 48.0KHz
[00:00:00:000] | Dest. Sample-Rate: 44.1KHz
[00:00:00:000] | Attenuation : 0.0db
[00:00:00:000] +------- AC3ENC ------
[00:00:00:000] | Bitrate method : CBR
[00:00:00:000] | AC3 bitrate : 640
[00:00:00:000] | Channels Mode : 5.1
[00:00:00:000] | Error Protection: Yes
[00:00:00:000] +---------------------
[00:01:20:960] Conversion Completed !
[00:01:20:960] Actual Avg. Bitrate : 1410kbps
[00:00:25:000] <-- Transcoding Duration

Logging ends : 05/06/05 , 19:11:04.

[KpeX]

You could try adding a -ac3enc ( -b 448 ) section to adjust the bitrate.

Also, since your source is AC3, why are you reencoding? Besplit can go right from DD to DD-WAV without reencoding.

Edit: I see that you are resampling, ignore my previous comment about besplit.

[magicclue]

if you WANT to use besweet -> transcode for whatever reason to AC3 (change Bitrrate/Frequency)

BeSweet always reencodes if you convert to DDWAV!!

Use HeadAC3He to pack the AC3 in a Wave.
HeadAC3He does not reencode and puts the AC3 directly into a working DDWAV.
DDWAvs produced by besweet do not work with my amplifer (and I'm not the only one).

download HeadAC3He from Daphy's site (needfulthings.webhop.org)