converet mpeg2 to mpeg4 5.1 DTS

[night_flight]

HI,
I was wondering is there any east to use program that would convert my dvd which is about 7000kbs with DTS sound 5.1 into mpeg4 with DTS sound. I also need to know what bitrate would be sufficient in mpeg4 if mpeg2 is 7000kbps...How is that calculated with NO LOSS on quality
Recommend programs
Thanx

[jman98]

All you need to do is simply not process the audio to keep the DTS. I don't do this kind of conversion, but what you want to do can certainly be done and that's what I wanted to point out - don't touch the audio.

Note that anytime you convert there will be a loss of quality, but under ideal circumstances you won't notice it. You stressed "NO LOSS" in your post and the only way for there to truly be no loss is to not re-encode. Again, if properly you done you may not notice it, but some loss will always happen when you encode from one lossy codec to another.

[night_flight]

well minimal loss. i have a receiver and some music dvds that have 5.1 now i want to normalise audio have good looking video (i think mpeg4 codec would be fine) and have decent quality video. I hear about 2500 mark for mpeg is ok. Still what do I do with the audio? I have handbrake and tmpg express they all can convert to mpeg 4 but no option on sound it mixes it to 2 channels only. I want also to level out audio as some music files are quieter than others. (mind u files to be stored on ps3 not dvd)

[jman98]

The audio part of this is easy. Demux the original audio. Save it. Mux it with the final video. I use MPEGVCR (commercial product) when I need to demux MPEG-1/2 video but someone else might know a free product to use.
If you want to use Handbrake or TMPGenc then you are set. Demux the final output, add your new video to the old audio and re-mux into a new file.

I've heard to use half the bit rate with MPEG-4 that MPEG-2 uses.