newbie Q : dvd2OneX and audio

[Sculder]

Hi there

I intend to backup my Led Zeppelin double dvd using Dvd2OneX - movie only. I read Galactica's tutorial which is very clear and informative but my problem is choosing the right audio track. There are three of them for the main title of dvd 1 (Abert Hall concert): pcm 2 ch, ac3 6 ch and DTS 5 ch. The content is the same : the concert (no language choice). Which format should I keep ?

My dvd player reads l-pcm, dts, dolby surround, dolby digital. Up to now it is only connected to my 1979 stereo but I guess I'll go for a "home cinema" in the future.

TIA for your answers

[AntnyMD]

I always choose the Dolby Digital multichannel track. Besides being smaller than DTS and PCM, I almost never listen to the DD2.0 track when it's available. Choosing a Dolby track will leave DVD2OneX more room for video so your quality will be better (in the case where the software must compress the video to fit on a consumer DVD-R). Sometimes the director's commentary is in one of the Dolby tracks, but I've noticed DVD2One almost always correctly identifies and labels those tracks in the audio selection frame.

[square]

AntnyMD has a good point reguarding video quality, but how big is the original disc? if it's less than 6gb i usually just keep all the audio tracks (except for other languages). better safe than sorry.

[tgpo]

I only backup the ac3 6 ch audio stream, and any commentairies. That's all that I use, thus the other audio streams are not needed for most people.

[Sculder]

I only backup the ac3 6 ch audio stream, and any commentairies. That's all that I use, thus the other audio streams are not needed for most people.

Then I'll only keep the ac3 files as each disc is about 7,6 Gb - though I won't back up all the extras.

Thanks to you all.