dolby surround?

[kimpan]

I want to get the best sound possible to my svcds. Is dolby surround the solution for me? How do you get dolby surround and does it take up more space on the disk?what tools are the best for it? I use smartripper, dvd2avi and TMPGEnc. please help me.

[adam]

Yes dolby surround is the best possible sound you can get on either a vcd or svcd. I wont get into multichannel mpeg audio because although its superior, almost no one can actually use it. dolby surround sound is just a properly encoded stereo signal so its not any bigger than a regular stereo signal. The size is determined by your bitrate. You can use dvd2avi to downmix your audio to dolby surround. Just look in the audio tab. I believe that a higher quality method is to use graphedit and the intervideo decoder to do the downmix but the quality of either method is comparable.

Of course in order to get dolby surround you need hardware that supports it or hardware that supports dolby pro logic, in which case you'll get pro logic of course.