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    There is this pretty nice Bose Dolby Surround-System in my Living Room and actually it has to work only as an dumb stereo. I would like to change it.

    The problem is: I don't have an DVD burner. So what I want to make is an SVCD from an DVD with a fully working Dolby Surround.

    At work I can use DVD Studio Pro or Final Cut Pro, if that should be neccessary for it.

    I managed it so far to built up an DVD with DVD Studio Pro and a Dolby Surround Sound. I burned this vob-file as DVD from Toast on a CD-R but the picture is dithering.

    Any of you guys having a idea how to manage this?

    Would be nice!

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    I am not at all familiar with Mac software, however, Dolby surround is fully supported in the SVCD standard. Most DVD's have a 2.0 track, which is already downmixed. So just use this audio track and make a compliant SVCD anyway you know how and you will have dolby surround.

    Are you maybe thinking of Dolby Digital 5.1? Because dolby surround only requires a properly encoded stereo signal.

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    Hi Adam,

    you're absolutely right: What I want to have is an Audio-Stream Dolby Surround 5.1. I used A.Pack to mixed the channels together. So I do have this file.

    What I have done else is: I took the vob-file without the audio and used ffmpegX to built a file in a better size to burn it with toast.

    My idea: I will mux the new mpg-videofile with the ac3-file built in A-Pack together as an DVD-File.

    This one I will split into three pieces and remux them to put them into DVD Studio pro to built a DVD-File which i can burn under the DVD-Modus in Toast on a usuall CD-R (Due to the fact, that i don't have a DVD-Burner).

    Do you think it will work?

    I will know it soon ...

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    What you will create is called a mini-dvd or more technically, a cDVD. Few dvd players will play these but you never know unless you try. Good luck but I wouldn't hold my breath. As far as I know there are only about two brands of dvd player which reliably support mini-dvd.

  5. Originally Posted by Doc Boese
    What I want to have is an Audio-Stream Dolby Surround 5.1.
    Dolby Surround is encoded in two channels. 5.1 is called Dolby Digital. If you want Dolby Surround, ffmpegX will downsample the 5.1 audio to Dolby Surround when encoding VOB to SVCD. For Dolby Digital, just use DVD Studio Pro to author your stuff and burn it on a CDR, however as adam stated, only some DVD players will play DVD burned on a CDR.

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    Thanks for your helpfull hints. I'm a lucky guy: my dvd-player plays miniDVD's without any problems – I just made a little Test.

    The only thing what makes me trouble is: How can I split the File I made in DVDSP? 4.7 Gigs are too big (of course) and there are some Informations which are neccessary for the vob-file like the ifo-file.

    Is it possible to rip the movie (the video file) in a low bitrate using ffmpgX and mux this stuff as DVD with the audio-file (ac3) using again ffmpg?

    If this would be possible, can I split the file into parts which would fit on a CDR and would be recognised as miniDVD from my Player?

    ** Sorry, my english is bad

  7. Originally Posted by Doc Boese
    Is it possible to rip the movie (the video file) in a low bitrate using ffmpgX and mux this stuff as DVD with the audio-file (ac3) using again ffmpg?
    I would suggest to try to re-encode the VOB with ffmpegX 0.0.4g at a lower bitrate, ie 2500 like SVCD. Try SVCD preset, set "Autosize" to "DVD", then go to the VCD/SVCD tab and set the "Profile" dropdown to "XSVCD". You could probably also turn off "SVCD Scan" and "VOB Letterbox". In the "Tools" tab turn on "Keep elementary streams" and turn off "Author" and "Split". Hit encode. Then open the resulting .m2v in DVD Studio Pro, add the AC3 audio and build. To split into parts better you do it before encoding, by extracting not the whole VOB at once, but selected chapters in separate VOBs having each a proper duration.

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    Thanks Major,

    this idea with the chapters is such easy ... Maybe I should stop smoking to keep my brain clear!

    One last question: How many kb are fitting onto an miniDVD? 'Cause I don't want to have 32 CD's only for one movie.

  9. Probably about 30 minutes on an 80 min CDR.




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