I finally got my hands on a motherboard that has dolby digital 5.1 outputs! And I have been ripping alot of DVD's lately and using VDub to merge the .ac3 file into the avi. I was informed by one of the guides here that this would give me 5.1 sound output. WRONG! It only gives me stereo and crappy stereo at that. The only way that I have found for this to work, and it works with DD and DTS, is to use Besweet to convert the .ac3 into 5.1 DD-WAV. This works perfectly but the only downside is that it creates a very large audio file.
It also works if you have SurCode DTS. Using Besweet you can convert the .ac3 into 6 WAVES and then plug each channel's wave file into SurCode DTS and have it convert it into a DTS-WAVE file. This is not neccessary though because it creates a file thats the exact same size as the 5.1 DD-WAVE and there's obviously no improvement in the sound. But it works nonetheless.
Am I doing something wrong that merging the .ac3 file into the avi is not giving me 5.1 sound or is this the expected result?
It also works if you have SurCode DTS. Using Besweet you can convert the .ac3 into 6 WAVES and then plug each channel's wave file into SurCode DTS and have it convert it into a DTS-WAVE file. This is not neccessary though because it creates a file thats the exact same size as the 5.1 DD-WAVE and there's obviously no improvement in the sound. But it works nonetheless.
Am I doing something wrong that merging the .ac3 file into the avi is not giving me 5.1 sound or is this the expected result?
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