ac3/wav -> Dolby digital encoded audio cd (how?)

[pantabbath]

I read about this on the labdv webpage, but I could not get access to the tutorial. I have Besweet and Sonic Foundry 5.1 software. I was wondering if anyone out there had tried to do this. What i am trying to do is create a standard audio cd, except have the tracks encoded with dolby digital. There are options in both of the programs, yet when I select them, and then encode the resulting encoded file, is only noise. It states in the Sonic foundry help file that some computer audio cards cannot process dolby digital properly, yet if a hardware decoder is used they say it will work. So i burnt it to an audio cd, using Nero, and then stuck it in my DVD player, which is plugged into a decoder, yet I still got the same noise. If there is a tutorial already written could someone just point me in the right direction.

[Peka]

There was a thread on this site a little while ago that had a link to that tut. Can't seem to find it now, but if you do a search of the forums here you should find it. I tried it and got the same results.

The problem is that my DVD (which has the decoder) identifies the disk as CDDA and never invokes the Dolby Digital decoder. The tutorial actually says that not all players will playback these CD's properly - I think you just have to be lucky to get one that does.

[pantabbath]

I am off to search. Thanks.

[pantabbath]

found some topics but they did not deal with this directly. Has anyone done this and succeded?

[pire]

I haven t tried this...but its an idea. If you are planning to play it on a DVD player then the best thing you can probably do is to encode the audio as an mpg2 layer2 (AKA MPEG2 5.1) audio file, although many DVD players won't recognise it...may b u re lucky. You might have to burn the mpeg audio files as VCDs or SVCDs for the DVD player to try and play them.

I left my computer in university during the hols so couldnt try it out and check all the language and names are correct...
happy new year

[Buzzz]

I haven t tried this...but its an idea. If you are planning to play it on a DVD player then the best thing you can probably do is to encode the audio as an mpg2 layer2 (AKA MPEG2 5.1) audio file, although many DVD players won't recognise it...may b u re lucky. You might have to burn the mpeg audio files as VCDs or SVCDs for the DVD player to try and play them.

I left my computer in university during the hols so couldnt try it out and check all the language and names are correct...
happy new year

I did try this and it worked out fine!!! I used self recorded wave files (just my voice with a microphone) saved 5 different textwave´s and merged them to a AC°3 .wav file (this is indeed a digital wavefile. Done this with Soft Encode, and can be found on the net.
After you´ve built this digital wavfile, the manual found on this website tells us to burn it with nero just as you should burn a regular audio cd.
Then again, you need a philips standalone dvd player to get this played on a home cinema system. I also tried Kenwood and Deawoo with success. BUT: My Grundig dvd player just gave the known grrrrrrrrrr sound, why i cannot explain.