tooLAME vs BeSweet

[weasyl]

I am using Pinoy's guide to get Dolby Digital sound on my SVCD's and
am using tooLame and SSRC for the external plug-ins for TMPGEnc.
The results are great but I keep hearing people talk about BeSweet
and how wonderful it is for audio.

Is there a difference ?
Do the programs do the same thing ?

How would I use BeSweet instead of tooLAME for the audio on my
SVCD's ?

Thanks gang.

[adam]

Besweet is a gui which combines azid, ssrc, and toolame, along with a few other progs. It just allows you to automate the process of going from ac3 to wav so you don't have to run each program separately.

If your just converting wav to mp2 then there is no difference between using ssrc and toolame through TMPGenc or besweet, they are both just different gui's for the same programs.

[Digifreak]

Whoaa, since when can you put a Dolby Digital soundtrack on a SVCD? Perhaps you mean a downmix of Dolby Digital to Dolby Surround?

[stanwebber]

what specifically is 'dolby surround'? do you mean dolby digital 2.0(pro-logic)? how is that not a dolby digital format?

[Digifreak]

You have a point, I guess Dolby Surround is a Dolby Digital format since it is a specific type of encode upon Dolby Digital 2.0. I guess most people use the Dolby Digital term to describe a format where all channels stay discretely separated through the encoding/decoding process unlike Dolby Surround Pro-Logic.