RM10 with Multichannel

[LiFe]

Hi guys,
Has anyone managed to encode any 5.1 multichannel audio in RP10 GUI? I've tried direct AC3, 6 channel wav, 6 channel wav through AVS, 6 channel AVI created by MS's multichannel avi creator....

The Source Properties box says "Multichannel" but the encoding log says "Mono source detected, converting to stereo - are you sure this is what you wanted?".

Stupid bug. Don't know who the hell bug tested this but the functionality is pretty useless if it doesn't recognise any valid multichannel source!

Anyone had any luck getting RP 10 GUI to input any multichannel stuff? How do I convert 6 mono wav files into a format RP 10 will understand?

LiFe.

[iradic]

try AutoRV10...

[karl_lillevold]

LiFe: You are right, it seems RealProducer 10 GUI has a problem with encoding multi-channel files. And it is caused by a strange bug. I saved the job file, and started editing until I found the problem. It turns out as long as there is an audio pre-filter section in the input section, even when the filter is disabled, Producer insists the source is mono or stereo and needs to upmix, even though the source is multi-channel.

This is what producer says
Warning: Upmixing from mono or stereo to multichannel. Is this what you wanted?

when the following section is in the inputs section:
<prefilters>
<prefilter xsi:type="audioGainPrefilter">
<enabled type="bool">true</enabled>
<gain type="double">0.000000</gain>
</prefilter>
</prefilters>

remove this, and encoding works fine. Setting enabled to 'false' does not help.

The problem is the GUI includes the audio gain filter in the job file, even when the gain is set to zero. You can save the job file, edit it manually to remove the prefilter section above, and then encode on the command line with 'producer -j jobfile.rpjf'.

I will file a bug report. Thanks!

[LiFe]

Hmm, Opening the edited job file in the GUI doesn't work?

Damn.

Any chance of a .1 update being issued? : )

LiFe.

[stevemc]

Let me see if I can get the GUI posted to hc.org. I don't want to put our QA team thru a whole test cycle so we can't do another "gold" release until February (Beta in December).

Steve