?poss to get 5.1 sound when converting a DIVX to DVD ?

[eggedd2k]

just wondering as I can't find an answer elsewhere on the forum if it's possible to somehow do something with the audio from a divx/xvid file so that the sound is 5.1 or near to when converted to a dvd?

[Treebeard]

if the divx has ac3(5.1) sound then just extract the ac3 using virtualdubmod and then use an authoring program that can accept ac3 audio like dvdlab. thats how I handle it. if the original divx doesnt have 5.1 I dont mess w/ it trying to create it, but Im sure somebody will chime in who does.

[Skynet107]

If you are not converting the video format then it is very easy. Just demux the audio using VirtualDub. If you are changing the framerate of the video then that is a different story.

Make sure you run ac3fix on the extracted ac3 file, Vdub likes to put useless header info in the ac3 stream which makes it non-compliant.