What is the difference among simple Stereo , Joint Stereo...

[Justo]

What is the difference among simple Stereo , Joint Stereo and Dual Channel Audio on a standalone DVD player whit 5.1 Speakers? Which of them are the best option for SVCD/CVD.

Thanks!

[NeWcS]

Good question. Ive been wondering this same thing for some time.

Anyone?

[Treebeard]

Article on Stereo VS. Joint Stereo

I havent read it but it may give you some answers

http://www.modatic.net/audio/stereo_vs_jointstereo.php

[MOVIEGEEK]

Mid/Side Stereo a.k.a Joint Stereo - The encoder encodes to a mid channel, which is just one full channel by itself that is averaged out from the two original channels, and a side channel which contains all of the stereo separation. Instead of encoding two full channels like with normal stereo, the encoder only has to encode one channel and part of another. Sometimes there is too much stereo separation for JS to reproduce, if such a situation occurs, the encoder will switch back to normal stereo. This doesn't happen very often though, on most soundtracks, JS is used on about 95% of the frames.

Dual channel is for two different languages/dialects.