AVI with DD 5.1 to DVD keeping DD 5.1

[moviewatcher666]

Hello all,

Just what am I missing!

I have an AVI that was captured from a HD source with the Dolby Digital 5.1 signal intact. I did not generate this video file myself.

To enable me to watch on my home theatre system in widescreen and DD 5.1, I convert to DVD using Nero Vision 4. The conversion is beautiful in picture and sound. I burn to a rewritable DVD and enjoy.

I wanted to find other programs that can do the same thing. I have been testing all types of MPEG encoders that are supposed to support AC3 (Dolby Digital 5.1) in the conversion from AVI to DVD. I have tried many of the programs in the tools portion of this site. But what I find happens in these programs is that the DD signal gets rendered down to Dolby 2.0 along with other defects (out of sync, etc....) I have been able to check all these conversions using PowerDVD becaaue it will display the video & sound information while the video is playing. The product that has the closest succesful results is DVD Flick & AVIDemux but still has some minor bugs that I may to report to them.

I do the exact same thing with movie trailers in the HiDef Quicktime format. I downloaded the Spider-Man 3 trailer in 720p. Encode through Nero Vision 4 and perfect DVD with widescreen and 5.1 Dolby Digital. Any other encoder method just does not work right.

So what does Nero Vision do that is so special that handles this process perfectly and other professional encoders miss??

My reason to find another way is that I like a backup process. Sometimes when upgrading to new versions of Nero they fix one thing and break another. They have broke their encoding process in the past and I had to revert back to previous version. I don't mind using a multi-program, multi-step process as long as I know the results will work.

I haven't seen anybody else in these forums deal with this problem specifically. Does anyone have any advise or better yet, a verifyable solution to convert AVI with DD 5.1 to DVD DD 5.1?

Thanks in advance!

[Noahtuck]

ConvertXtoDvd

I do it all the time with 5.1 DD avi's.