How to create 5.1 sound?

[straycat]

Well, when I'm using the german tutorial here
http://studynet.host.sk/Docx/D2SAnleit.htm
for creating SVCD's from my DVD's. Everything is working just fine, although I don't really know what happens in the background, when I strictly follow the mentioned tutorial, the results are just great.

Now I want to make SVCD's with 5.1 audio. Somewhere around here I read that it's necessary to use I-Author as the CD-Image programm and of course set the output mode in the tab 'Audio' to 5.1

So that's what I did. I started the whole thing and when I controlled the progress a few hours later, I noticed that this I-Autor had opened in 120 (!) instances. I didn't know what to do, so I cancelled the whole thing :(

What did I do wrong? Is I-Autor to blame?

[markrb]

I think I remember that being a problem with I-Author. If I remember right it's either the wrong version or a badly cracked one.

It's been awhile since I saw this so my memory might be failing me.

Try and do a search on I-Author and see if you can come up with any posts on it. I would, but I am short of time.

Mark

[hoozdapimp]

this is actually a known issue with i-author...this will happen when i-author detects any sort of error (usually the errors aren't even errors that will mess anything up)...anyways if you look closely at your dvd2svcd log you will see a bunch of instances of something likke:

"error found in stream"
"closing program"

and then it will attempt to open a new i-author with the same settings but will it will get past the last part in the stream where the "error" occured...this all seems good, except that dvd2svcd doesn't actually close the program! so if all of the instances of i-author acutally finished (say you had 10 of them, your result would be a 8 GB file instead of 800 mb)...

this problem has been fixed in the newest beta of dvd2svcd. do a search for that, and download it. once you have the newest version, you can do a crashrecovery from muxing and everything should turn out ok...one other thing, if you don't have ez-cd creator (i hate that program) then there is an option to turn the .cif images to bin/cue files by using cdmage...in the cdimage tab click use cdmage, and also be sure to download the latest beta for cdmage as dvd2svcd doesn't come with it specifically, and let dvd2svcd know the path to the program.

[straycat]

Thanks.

I downloaded a beta version that identifies as 1.1.0 build 1 Pre 22.
I hope this is the latest one.

The path to CDMage has to be given in the tab 'Finalize' not 'CDImage', right?

[UltimateDBZ]

Yes, that is the most recent beta of DVD2SVCD available to the public. And yes, the path to CDMage goes in the Finalize tab.

[Josh]

Stray Cat, where did you download it? I looked for it last night and I couldn't find it, not even on Kazaa. Where did you find I-Author?

[spinspan]

Try this and have fun :D
http://hypercube.is.dreaming.org/

[Josh]

Is I-Author the only program then that can do 5.1 Channels?

[UltimateDBZ]

I-Author is the only program that can do 5.1 audio.

EDIT: Apparently I _was_ mistaken, and that link didn't contain warez. I acted on impulse, without looking into it further, my bad. Sorry for the confusion... and let the thread continue! :)

[hoozdapimp]

so has anyone tried this encoder that's on the link above?