5.1 or 2 channel best for MP3 quality?

[K(c)offee]

Is there any reason to encode 5.1 audio to an MP3 to use in a Xvid? I dont know much about how audio works so would there be more information to make the mp3 sound better or should I just use the stereo sound and forget the 5.1? I only have 2 speakers and a subwoofer but I mostly use headphones so I dont much need to encode to 5.1 ogg(I think ogg lets you do 5.1 channels) anyway thanks.

[Gazorgan]

Use BeSweet and convert the 5.1 down to positional 2 channel Stereo (Dolby surround, 4 channels muxed to 2: Left, Right, Center, Rear). Then encode to 160 or 192 kbps MP3. Works very well for something more than stereo.

[K(c)offee]

Thanks for the quick reply. Are there any guilds that would explain how to do what you said? Im new to Besweet and I have not found a guild here that helps with this. Though Im not really sure what to look for. Im going to go dig though the guilds again just in case I missed something.

[Gazorgan]

Load an AC3. Then you have options to 'downsample'. You can leave it 48 khz or go 44 khz. The GUI for BeSweet is fairly intuitive.

[K(c)offee]

Ok thanks. And I meant Guide not Guild... but I guess you already know that. Been playing to much Europa...