Extracting audio into dolby digital...who do i do it?

[dzirkelb]

I finally last night made my first conversion from a .avi file into a dvd that plays in my stand alone dvd player..yippie!!!

However, the sound is a little metallicy, and not surround that I have noticed.

One thing I found that i did wrong that I am correcting is when i extracted the audio using vdub, i converted it into 41,100 instead of leaving it at 48,000.

I now have extracted and tmegpenc is currently encoding it with dvd ntsc template...so everything will work there fine (4400 bit rate) and it should fit on a dvd.

My question is this:

Will this conversion get rid of the metallicy noise?

also, how do i convert my extracted .wav file into dolby digital 5.1? I have read some walkthroughs but am having troubles understanding how it works and how to do it. Thanks!

[Gazorgan]

You can't convert an extracted WAV to 5.1 . 5.1 has 6 audio channels, and a WAV has 2 (dolby surround is a 2 channel signal that is a mux of 4 channels). The information doesn't exist to put the sound onto 6 channels. There is software that will let you fake it, but you are better off buying the DVD compared to the time involved.

[dzirkelb]

That would make sense why I didn't understand how it worked..thanks!

Do you think the conversion i am doing now will get rid of the metallicy noises?

Thanks again!