Dolby Digital and Pro Logic

[N8theGr8]

im about to rip a few DVDs today, using Smartripper, DVD2AVI, and TMPGEnc. i wanted to know, what formats support prologic and which supports digital, and will these programs take that into account and do everything for me? also, in the DVD Rip guide by Sefy, what is his SxVCD? extended SVCD? i dunno if that would work on my DVD player..maybe i'll just stick with XVCD or SVCD. 352x240 and 1800kbit/sec sound good?

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[JimJohnD]

DVD or Mini-DVD are the only formats that support Digital Dolby or AC3. Dolby ProLogic can be used with any format that supports Stereo ((X)VCD, (X)SVCD). Some people have reported (including myself) on trying to use Multi-Channel MPEG with SVCD, but my player down-mixes to stereo (when I could get it to play sound at all). When the DVD-R drives come down in price making DVDs with 5.1 will be a snap, but for now ProLogic is as good as I have been able to do.

[likkletree]

I don't think you will be doing "a few" today not with tmpeg anyway maybe one eh ?

[N8theGr8]

hey, its possible. but i hear ya, TMPGEnc can be slooow. what with the interlace, non inlerlace, deinterlace..ahhh! what do i pick for the settings? example, if im gonna covert an AVI movie (taken from dvd), compressed to an MPEG, is the source interlace or not? what about when i capture from a camcorder?