2.0 PCM to 2.0 DTS? Is it possible?

[RidgeShark]

I have a 2.0 PCM Laserdisc soundtrack (48khz) that I'd like to transcode to 2.0 DTS. I'm not interested in creating fake 5.1 surround.

So far, I've tried this with Surcode DVDPro DTS Encoder. I loaded left and right mono tracks and encoded a DTS file, but it came out technically a 5 channel DTS file. It plays back like 2.0 stereo, but everything shows it as 5 channels. I checked all the options in Surcode, but didn't see a 2.0 option. Is there such a thing? Or is 2.0 DTS audio only possible within a 5 channel container when processed with Surcode?

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated because this is driving me nuts.

[tebasuna51]

Maybe you need SurCode CD-DTS Professional ($99) instead SurCode DVD-DTS Professional ($249)

But you can use other free encoders with much more quality than DTS, and free, you have FLAC (and other lossless encoders), AAC, OGG, MP3, AC3, ...

For what you need DTS?

[Midzuki]

Maybe I'm wrong, but AFAIK, DTS does not support other configurations than 5.1 audio (the unused channels are simply "muted" by the encoder).

Given that DTS @ 48kHz = 1536kbps, I see no point in preferring it to uncompressed stereo PCM @ 48kHz (which also = 1536kbps).

[RidgeShark]

I'm intending on muxing the audio with an x264 video track. I'm using MeGUI, but there are no options for muxing uncompressed PCM audio with the x264 video. I saw DTS as one of the accepted file types for audio, so I've been pursuing that as I've always heard great things about DTS. But really, I'd be just as happy with any lossless option, or just muxing the pcm track with the video. The only problem is I don't know what program can mux an uncompressed PCM wav with x264 video.

[Inspector.Gadget]

It would be a waste of space anyway. Compress the PCM to FLAC with FLAC Frontend or foobar2000 and mux that instead.