Surround Audio on VCD

[Sycho]

I know thats this was proably asked in the past but I just wanted to know for sure.

If you mux a *.mpg stream (vcd) and a *.wav with ac3 audio, would the ac3 flag be preserved or would it just come out as noise?

and if it does come out as noise on some amplifiers you can override the autoinput, ie. you set it for Dolby Digital and it will only play a dolby digital sound track, no pcm, no mpeg, no dts. would it work like that?

[adam]

VCDs only support mpeg1 audio layer II audio streams. If you tried to multiplex your video with a wav file or an AC3 file (I can't tell which you are talking about) then you would be way out of the VCD spec. Very few dvd players, if any, would be able to play it at all, much less with multichannel audio. You can always try it, but I can pretty much guarantee it won't work.

[Sycho]

thanks anyway, but thats why i posted this in "Audio Encoding" an ac3 *.wav is a wav file that has ac3 frames in, so you can burn it to a CD and it will play back through your decoder as 5.1, a regular stereo will just play back nosie

The reason is that my dvd player will not play back cd-r's and i was going to get a cheapo dvd player to play back ups