Playing SVCD tracks in standalone DVD-player with reciever.

[Bulten]

Hi!

I have tried ripping DVDs using DVD2SVCD, and it has all gone well. Now I want to try a new step. I want to add a second audio track, so make the surround sound better (cos that is why you have SVCD tracks, isn't it?). Well, I see that option is included in DVD2SVCD. I have a DVD player that plays 2 channels on SVCD (it's a Samsung SV-DVD1E). The DVD-player takes both Dolby digital and DTS. It is connected optically to a reciever that plays both Dolby digital and DTS. I have connected this reciever to a 5.1 speaker system, and playing DVD audio works great. This is my question. How do I get the reciever to play these two tracks in surround mode. I don't really understand how this works, does the DVD convert the channels to Dolby digital or somethin? Or is everything done in the reciever. How do i do it?

[Bulten]

Hmm, I recently read some about this, and it said like this: "In terms of video and audio quality, SVCD is in between VCD 2.0 and DVD, using a 2x CD drive to support variable bitrate (VBR) MPEG-2 video up to 2.6 Mbps, and either 1 or 2 MPEG-2 Layer II stereo audio streams (for soundtracks in two different languages). It is also possible to use MPEG-2 Multi-Channel 5.1 surround audio encoding."

The "tracks" people are talking about.. it's just for using multiple languages ? Then, how do i use yhe MPEG2 5.1 surround encoding? What tools to use? anyone knows?

[Cheburek]

SVCD can have up to 4 tracks of audio. However, this isn't like 5.1 audio that you have on DVDs, where you have discrete sound channels. SVCD tracks are just separate audio streams. For example, you can use dvd2svcd to rip 3 audio tracks, one english tracks, one french, and the last track may be used for commentaries. It does not mean that track 1 will be used for the center channel, track 2 for right, 3 for surround... etc, no SVCD cannot do that.

What you can do, however, is play your svcd using the Pro Logic decoder of your receiver. If you have Pro Logic II, use that. This will "create" 4 channels of audio so all of you speakers will be used and thus, sound much better than TV speakers.