Dolby Digital 5.1 in movies

[pickupork]

I am trying to get the dolby digital 5.1 to burn with my movies I am backing up. I use dvd2avi and I have tried all the settings but I always come out with a 2 channel pcm track. Whats the point of backing up a dvd and not getting the right audio? I have BeSweet but I dont know how to use it (yet). If anyone has any ideas please respond. I use dvd decrypter, dvd2avi, tmpgenc and dvd maestro.

Thanks

[SHARKO]

Hey Pickupork, I'm doing the same as you are. DVD2AVI say its 2 channel. But when you import it onto maestro it shows 6CH for me. And my dvd player see's the Dolby ( the dolby digital sysmbol come up on it, so I think it 6CH. Hopefully helped you

[pickupork]

In Maestro it says 2 channel, and my reciever says pro logic but not dolby digital pro logic (no bass). What settings are you using in dvd2avi? Are you decoding to wav or ac3?

Thanks

[Tbear]

I use demux all tracks and del the tracks I don't want

[TeeeRex]

Classic mistake being made here - for AC3 (dolby digital) you need to select DEMUX and NOT decode in DVD2AVI (as Tbear has already said). This will rip the AC3 stream(s) from the VOB - and leave you with various AC3's - one will possibly be a 2 channel audio file (says so in the filename) and one should be a 6 channel audio file.

If you select decode (for SVCD) then all you will get is a WAV file which is a 'mix' from the AC3 file. The idea here is to convert this into a MP2 audio file for SVCD/VCD. You can use this for DVD if you want - it's much smaller file size than AC3 but is obviously only 2 channel (Pro Logic only).

Hope this helps.

TeeeRex

[pickupork]

I figured it out. In dvd2avi 1.76 under the audio menu I selected dolby digital instead of automatic and left the rest the same. It came out 6 channel DD 5.1. Thanks for all your help.

Pickupork