AC-3 doby digital on cd?

[Fishboy]

I am a little new to this and have a question.

Can you burn DD5.1 audio tracks onto a cd format other than MiniDVD vcd, xvcd etc?

I have a sony player which of course supports no formats at all especially not minidvd.

I wish to make a cd/disk of all the dolby digital/THX trailers (once I get them all) and use it on my player. Is this possible?

The next question is does anyone know where to get all available DD5.1 trailers, I have some but not all and most site's I vist have links all down.

Thanks
Fishboy

[adam]

Sorry, what you ask is impossible. No video format supports dolby digital except dvd. The best audio you can realistically get on any form of vcd, svcd, or deriviation of the two, would be a dolby surround encoded stereo signal which could be decoded into prologic.

Svcd does support multichannel mpeg audio which is as good as dolby digital and can also be 5.1 but its only a theoretical format. I don't think theres actually hardware which supports it.

Sorry, I'm not sure where you can get trailers either.

[Fishboy]

Thanks for the reply.

It,s a bit of a bugger but you get that , Stoopid Sony and there fancy limited functions crap. I wish he player wasnt as good as it is or I would gladly throw it out By any stretch of the imagination has anyone got a minidvd to work on a sony machine?

So the best audio I could get from a vcd etc is surround sound?

Thanks

Fishboy

[Hateslife]

NO! WRONG! You can have a dolby AC3 soundtrack on a CD, no problem... Just make a 720x480 MPEG-2 track of the desired length that's totally blank, resulting in the lowest possible bitrate. Then, multiplex it with your AC3 audio.

Then, burn a miniDVD. Of course, the downside is that most DVD players won't take it, since it requires like a 8x cd drive. Most DVD drives have 2x cd-read capability

Making the Dolby AC3 track in the first place is another matter. I don't know if there are tools available to do so. Unless you can find some, you're stuck using DVD soundtracks.

As for MPEG-2 multichannel (SVCD 5.1 sound), apparently some, very early, european players might handle it. Originally, MPEG-2 multichannel was supposed to be the sound format for DVD's, but for some(unknown) reason, Dolby's sound format became the standard. Of course, I would expect that those early european players won't take SVCD's anyway, so I suppose it's not important.

[Kdiddy]

Dont you just hate when stupid people come in, dont read the WHOLE conversation from start to finish....thereby keeping themselves from making wasteful stupid posts..

Fishboy: "Can you burn DD5.1 audio tracks onto a cd format other than MiniDVD vcd, xvcd etc?

I have a sony player which of course supports no formats at all especially not minidvd."

now Hateslife, ask yourself the meaning of OTHER THAN MINIDVD, and then you turn around and post "Then, burn a miniDVD. Of course, the downside is that most DVD players won't take it, since it requires like a 8x cd drive."

No, more often they dont take because the standalone player's firmware doesnt allow/expect CD media to be authored in DVD format, example, take an Apex player, which has an IDE interface, switch it out with a 12x DVD drive, still wont play miniDVD, because the firmware reads that there is CD media in drive, and the firmware has been written to assume CD media only contains mp3/vcd/svcd/audio cd information...NOT DVD information, so it does not look for it, and does not read the disk properply....which why most players that do play miniDVD like mine require hacked firmware.


"Making the Dolby AC3 track in the first place is another matter. I don't know if there are tools available to do so. "

A simple search would have easily brought you to Sonic Foundry Soft Encode 1.0

[adam]

Hateslife I stated that the only video format that supports dolby digital is dvd. This is true since minidvd IS the dvd format, just burnt on cdr media and a minidvd obviously wont help him in this case since there are only about 3 brands of dvd players in the world which can play it.

[Innershield]

Go here, "http://www.labdv.com/en/index.php" and it will tell you how to burn ac3 to a cd-r