Surround Sound Idea for VCD/SVCD - comments?

[tygrus2000]

This seems to be a common topic but I had an idea that unfortunately I can't test out. Minnetonka's Surcode DTS and Dolby will make a surround encoded wav file from 6 seperate mono files. You can burn this wav file to a redbook cd and put it in your dvd player and receiver and it will decode it and play in surround.

What would happen if you used one of these surround encoded wav files in your vcd/svcd authoring? Would a home theatre receiver properly decode it?

tygrus

[adam]

When you encode the wav to mp2 you lose the extra channels. Mpeg1 audio just will not preserve all the channels. If you use mpeg2 audio and make a multichannel mpeg audio svcd then yes the channels can be preserved but hardly any hardware combintions will support this. Using a multichannel wav file as your audio source is no different than using the ac3 file off a dvd. Its not the source that is the problem, its the limitations of the format you are converting to.

If you were to keep the audio wav I don't know how you would go about multiplexing it with mpeg1/2 video, but even if you could do it I doubt any dvd player would properly decode it, not to mention the fact that you would get very little playtime per disk.

Sorry, this won't work.