Coax Digital cable error

[dscottflanders]

Chrissyboy,

Firstly, let me congratulate you on a superb peice of work in SVCD2DVD, it truly takes all the effort out of backing up your dvd's.

I have a query. My brother has a surround sound system that has digital coax cables running to his DVD player. I gave him a disk to try. We couldn't hear any sound?? Yet when we tried it on the tv in his other room (no digital coax cables), it was fine. I encoded the disk with normal mpeg audio. For his would I have to use AC3 encoding?

Any DVD with digital dolby surround sound plays fine on that system. Thats the only reason we could figure there was no sound present?

Thanks

[ChrissyBoy]

Well both mpa & AC3 are 2 channel if produced by SVCD2DVD. If you have 5.1 AC3 AVI assets then the 5.1 audio is maintained in the DVD..... That is all I know for certain.

I don't have a surround system but i would assume that the there must be some sort of way to handle non 5.1 audio. Maybe someone who has such equipment could comment. Maybe do a test DVD with AC3 to see if that helps too.

[bransholme]

check the settings on his dvd player, it may be set to only output Dolby digital signals, try setting it to PCM or something similar. I had a dvd player with exactly the same problem a while ago.