Best quality audio for SVCD

[DaNx]

I may have missed this part somewhere ...

but i just wanna know which is the best way to get the best possible audio on a SVCD when ripping from a DVD.
what bitrate should it be ? -- 192kHz or 224 ?? and should i use a sample rate of 44.1 or 48 kHz ??

Thanks

[sterno]

The SVCD standard specifies 44.1kHz audio, though many players seem to play them with 48kHz as well. You probably can't hear the difference so it's probably a little better to stick with the standard 44.1kHz. I use 224k stereo for most things, but if you're really concerned about the quality you can always test to see if you notice a real difference at higher bitrates.

[fossil]

does dual channel have an edge over stereo, or joint stereo

[sterno]

Joint stereo may sound better at lower bitrates (like under 160k). Some people say that dual channel sounds better or retains Dolby Surround better, but I don't really think so. I imagine that dual channel may be better at higher bitrates, but most of the time stereo probably is the better choice.

[Dr-Ripper]

Use Ac3 sound if u want the original DVD audio quality
Or use Graphedit to convert the Ac3 stream to uncompressed Wav, then compress it with Lame --altpresets.
I dunno why Graphedit does a better job converting ac3 to wav but its my experience that the wav file sound great and dont need any normalizing