SOUND question

[belvedere16]

ive tried deleting all sound language on dvds except for leaving 1 english track AC3 6ch and it works on all dvd players and surround sound is there a reason to keep any of there other english tracks?

[poopyhead]

well.....how about foreign language film...i.e. crouching tiger..

i kept both the english and mandarin audio tracks....so if i get lazy, i can just listen to the dubbed english...or if i wanna watch the original, i'll go with mandarin/english subs...

also, newer DVDs include DTS audio tracks that require special DTS decoders...they are much higher quality than AC3..as you can tell by the filesize...at least twice as big..

futhermore, there could also be some director's commentary....it might just be identified as another english audio track..but it's usually smaller in filesize and is the last audio track listed...

[belvedere16]

so ac 3 and ac 6 mean anything?

why is it called AC3 and the other AC6
is one main audio file or something?

[poopyhead]

no...main audio track could be of any format...just means how many unique channels...the more the better, but bigger filesize...

[belvedere16]

ok thx as long as i use the AC 3 6 should it alwyas work on normal tvs and my suround sound system

[poopyhead]

yes...AC3 6 channel means dolby digital 5.1 surround....

AC3 2 channel is just regular dolby digital surround...

both will work with all systems....only DTS requires special decoder, but better quality

DTS>5.1 DD>DD

[belvedere16]

thx for the help that is all