how to encode 6 mono WAV -> 5.1 AC3?

[J-Wo]

I used Besweet to take a 5.1 AC3 and create 6 mono WAV files so I could edit them. Now I want to encode them back to a 5.1 AC3 file but don't know what program I can use to do that. Anyone have any help for me? Tried doing a search for AC3 and WAV but the darn forum search engine doesn't allow 3 character search paramaters. Grr!

Thanks guys.

[J-Wo]

heh, maybe I spoke too soon. :) My friend google found me an archived doom9 post that suggested creating a .mux file for BeSweet. I'm not at work right now so I can't test it out, but thought I'd quote the message here. Just wondering if this is a good solution?

Yes, but Softencode is not freeware. On the other hand, BeSweet, is freeware. You can create a .mux file. The order of the file is FL,FR,C,LFE,SL,SR.

Audio2_1.wav
Audio2_2.wav
Audio2_3.wav
Audio2_4.wav
Audio2_5.wav
Audio2_6.wav

Save that as a .mux file and use it as the input file.

Regards,
Josh

[tebasuna51]

My friend google found me an archived doom9 post that suggested creating a .mux file for BeSweet. I'm not at work right now so I can't test it out, but thought I'd quote the message here. Just wondering if this is a good solution?
The first question is the ac3 encoder. If you need a free ac3 encoder now the best is Aften, the ac3enc-BeSweet is outdated.
You can use Aften in command line or with a GUI (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/index.php?dir=Aften/)

The second question is how merge your six mono wav to a multichannel wav (maybe soon Aften accept six mono wav's like input, now need a multichannel wav).

You can use the mux file (include the path's) like:
"D:\0\x_FL.wav"
"D:\0\x_FR.wav"
"D:\0\x_FC.wav"
"D:\0\x_LFE.wav"
"D:\0\x_SL.wav"
"D:\0\x_SR.wav"
And after:
BeSweet -core( -input D:\0\x.mux -output D:\0\x.ac3 ) -bsn( -exe aften.exe -b 448 -6chnew )

You need aften.exe in BeSweet folder and the last bsn_20060930.zip (http://corecodec.org/frs/?group_id=45&release_id=308#r308) from Kurtnoise.

To merge the channels you can use also WaveWizard (recommended for wav > 2 GB) and after AftenGUI.