Please post your Guide to make SVCD with multichannel 5.1 so

[Arien]

Let's try to put all the useful info together here and make a guide to creating a SVCD with 5.1 sound!

So post your Guide to make SVCD with multichannel 5.1 sound here. Please list the software you used as well.

I have read a lot about it on the forum, but i couldn't find something useful, especially since i don't use Linux...

Also, some links to the software used would be nice.

Ok, thanks a lot! And i hope a lot of people will benefit from this...

[adam]

http://www.stud.uni-siegen.de/sven.koelsch/mpeg2mc/
http://www.labdv.com/en/examples/svcd_audio.htm


Both sites have samples. I highly suggest you test your equipment with these before bothering to try and make one yourself. Honestly, the 5.1 ext to svcd audio is really just a theoretical format, I think its a pretty useless endevour. You'll almost never find hardware to support it...supposedly even if your hardware supports multichannel mpeg audio it still doesnt work...dont know why but thats what I've heard.

[suspect]

Rempeg has a built in MPEG 2 Mulitchannel Encoder.
http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/mpg/ReMPEG2v152.zip
just select the VOB or AC3 file and click encode. Its really slow.

[patrickm]

yeah, adam's right, the chances of having the right hardware are slim. it's more common in europe, where MPEG-2 audio was originally part of the DVD standard. but i have seen a couple of the new $800+ kenwood receivers advertizing it in the US. then you also need a DVD player that will support it. and that's where the catch is for me- i have a pioneer player that will, but not for anything on a CD. it's kinda like how playing miniDVD should be possible, but when the player detects an ISO filesystem and a CD it won't load the DVD playback software- the MPEG out light stays off even when the SVCD is playing, leading me to believe that it will only output a 5.1 MPEG steam when a DVD is present. and if you have a DVD-R, you might as well use DD or dts.

[vitualis]

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On 2001-07-09 06:09:12, suspect wrote:
Rempeg has a built in MPEG 2 Mulitchannel Encoder.
http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/mpg/ReMPEG2v152.zip
just select the VOB or AC3 file and click encode. Its really slow.
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This may not work. Somebody mentioned a while ago that they tried this, and the audio didn't work at all (with MC-MPEG audio, even if you can't get the 5.1 channels, you should still at least get normal stereo audio). Of course, this was only one report...

Regards.