convert 5 x mono to multichannel

[gkotse]

Hello guys. I have recorded (microphone) 5 mono wav audio files and I want to make a multichannel track that can be played-back on my home DVD player. Not the computer! In other words I want to make a 5.1 audio track (I don't care so much about the subwoofer because we are talking about naturally recorded sounds of birds).

Thanks for any help!!! I am not a newbie but I have trouble doing this.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Check out besweet and besure. They can make a 5.1 audio cd for you.

Kevin

[Timmychuck]

If your making 5.1 dvd you can try Audio DVD Creator.
There a 30 day trial for it.

[Gritz]

Audio DVD Creator won't do mono ..... and has trouble with 5.1. My burns with 5.1 won't play even on my Phillips DVP 642. Could be the player I guess. 2 Ch at 192 does nicely though.

[Sillyname]

(I don't care so much about the subwoofer because we are talking about naturally recorded sounds of birds).

If the microphones were in the same environment at the same time, you might be surprised at the realism you'd get back from channeling a little of the bass from each wave file to the subwoofer. Psychoacoustics are always welcome when trying to recreate a realistic soundscape. As long as there is no wind noise, I say give the subwoofer a little something to chew on, otherwise you will not be "transported" to the woods as fully as you could be.

[Manokat]

Hello guys. I have recorded (microphone) 5 mono wav audio files and I want to make a multichannel track that can be played-back on my home DVD player. Not the computer! In other words I want to make a 5.1 audio track (I don't care so much about the subwoofer because we are talking about naturally recorded sounds of birds).

Thanks for any help!!! I am not a newbie but I have trouble doing this.

There is a freeware software that can convert from 5 (or 6) mono audio to multichannel for SVCD audio track. It runs on Linux only though.

Or you can buy a Surcode Pro DTS CD ($99) which will encode them to a wav and you can burn it as a red book complaint CD.

Or use besweet to encode it to ac3 file. Some dvd players can play ac3 files on an ISO cdrom. Not sure with yours.

[daphy]

use besweet with the mux option (see FAQs on doom9) and create a 6-channel WAV then feed the wav to headac3 (latest!!!! see needfulthings)

you got the choice: as AudioCD you first have to convert the mono WAVs to 16bit/44.1KHz ->AC3WAV then burn them as normal AudioCD
or as DVD-Video (16bit48KHz) -> AC3 -> you will need a dummy video track
suggestion: tryout DVDLab for authoring, the latest pro version has a 'Audio' function!

I guess option one would be the easiest way

by Daphy