Dolby Surround In VCD

[fozzieb]

hi there,

Is there a way to make my VCD's have dolby surround sound rather than downmixing the audio to two speaker mode?

Cheers.

[bartman]

Depends on what you are trying to do.

If you are ripping a DVD to VCD then give DVDx a try. It has a setting to downmix 5.1 audio to Dolby Surround and gives good quality ...I ripped Shrek to one 80min CD and the quality is great

If you are making your own VCD's, like from home movies, then I can't help you much. If you have a stereo track there is some stuff you can do ( like flipping the left chanel and mixing it with the right etc. etc ) but I'm not sure if there is any software that will do all this for you.

[fozzieb]

I think i have confused myself,

what i want is 5.1 surround dolby digital on my vcd's (dvd ripp)

a vcd with 5.1 ac3 track ( I think )

[bartman]

Hmmm.....

what you are talking about here is an xVCD....so if your DVD player can do that, and you can mix ac3 into an MPEG1 video then I say give it a go.

Having said that, I'm not sure if any software will let you do it. Also, and don't quote me on this, I think the SVCD spec allows for multi chanel audio ( or is it multiple audio tracks.... )

In my experience though, Dolby Surround does the job......compared to the alternative ( stereo ).

[fozzieb]

thanks for your help, i'll mess around with it and see what happens.

by the way, do you know where to get a xVcd templete fot Tmpeg?

Cheers

[bartman]

There are a bunch listed in the "tools" section....scroll down to the end and you will find them.....

[JimJohnD]

Dolby ProLogic Surround is all you are going to get in a VCD format. VCD does not support 5.1 of any kind, Dolby or otherwise. VCD only supports up to STEREO. SVCD is said to support Multi-Channel MPEG, but there dosn't seem to be any tools to create them or players that will do much more than downmix to stereo. To get ANY true 5.1, Dolby, DTS ect you have to go to a DVD format that can support the datarate required. This question is asked 'All the time', perhaps the VCD page can have a note saying that 5.1 is NOT supported in any form. ProLogic Surround is encoded (mixed) into a standard Stereo audio track. All other 5.1 surrounds are a digital signal and require a decoder to create the audio information channels. The quality of the ProLogic surround depends on the source of course, but some of the TV shows I've recorded to VCD sounds better than some of "5.1" mixes I've heard on DVD.