Capture 480i 16:9 video with DD5.1 audio to burn DVDs

[hsugawar]

Okay, I want to burn HD movies I have recorded on my DVR onto DVDs. After extensive investigations, I have concluded video signals can be burned only by redigitizing the 480i analog output from the DVR because the digital data is securely protected from copying.

The problem is audio. I could redigitize 2 channel stereo output, but it means I'd lose DD5.1 surround sounds, which is unacceptable.

Is there any way to capture 480i analog video on S-video (or component video) with S/PDIF DD5.1 audio and burn the content to DVDs?

hiro

[guns1inger]

There are three ways I can think of
1. Find a sound card that accepts and records digital audio via S/PDIF.

2. Get a sound card that can accept 6 input channels simultaneously, connect all amp outputs to these inputs, and capture all 6 signals to seperate wav files. Then use something like Soft Encode (no longer available) or Surcode's AC3 encoder to rebuild the AC3 audio track.

3. Play each channel seperately into your sound card, to capture as a wav file. After you have done this 6 times, sync them together and re-encode (as per point 2)