whats surround option for azid? how about prologic2?

[phuntyme]

Was playing with BeSweet, and noticed an optioin in AZID1 screen for the output to be SURROUND. Does that convert the 5.1 audio in a DVD into a format my audio receive will be able to simulate back?

What about this prologic 2 thingie. I understand prologic takes a 2 channel (stereo) audio track and decodes it into a surround mode. Do I need to do anything special to "enable" this?

[DSPguru]

yes. and no.

Dg.

[DarkAvenger]

a very efficient answer :D

[Doom9]

indeed... also note that DPLII is purely a decoding issue.. you can't encode to DPLII.. so if you create your DPL soundtrack with azid and you play it with a DPLII capable receiver you'll get DPLII.. same goes for any stereo or DPL source

[phuntyme]

Thanks guys.

So to get the best conversion from DVD, I'll use that surround option in Azid and convert the ac3 file to a wave. And use tmpgenc to encode both video and audio into VCD/SVCD.

(you'll have to excuse me, kinda thick here) I'm just repeating because I am not sure about what is (if any) lost when converting from WAV to MP2.

[ChristianHJW]

Make sure your MP2 is 'Stereo' and not 'Joint Stereo' as this may f.... the Surround info or lead to noise .

I prefer to use toolame for MP2 encoding ( muxing later with TMPEG or BB_MPEG ) as you can set it to 'stereo' , and you dont know what TMPEG will do here, depending on bitrate ( does anybody know what it really does here ? )...