I am using besure. transcoded several cuts and burned them to a cd R/rw, but the they came out ac3 2.0, (the 080 track was DD 2.0 and the 081 track was DD 5.1 so the 081 track was demuxed by rejig for the ac3) and I want a 5.1 cd. can someone give me a link to the azid settings (in besweet where I believe besure grabs azid) so I will get an ac3 5.1 wav? if there is a better (easier to use) transcoder than besure/besweet/azid for creating an ac3 5.1 wav to burn on cd then I would appreciate the link or procedure. thx
Well you know that standard music CDs don't allow for multi-channel audio right? If you want to experience surround music it would be best to leave the file as "raw" compressed data (AC3) so that it can be fed to an appropriate Dolby Digital decoder. So my point is unless you have a player that is designd to decode Multi-Channel WAV files I wouldn't suggest using the WAV container format. All DVD playes decode AC3 files although some require the AC3 stream to be inside a VOB container. The only other way to create a multi-channel CD is by creating a DTS CD but I have no experience in doing that. The situation is still the same except a DTS decoder is needed. BeSweet is the best free AC3 transcoder I have come across. There is another app you could use though... HeadAC3he (homepage) http://darkav.de.vu/ Ced
You can put Dolby Digital WAV files to a CD-R, and play them. What you will need though is a proper Dolby Digital Encoder, not one of the reverse engineered hack jobs like BeSweet. As an example. The Nuendo Dolby Digital Encoder will allow this - there is an option to export as DD WAV file. This, like the DTS-WAV file, will appear to be a 16/44.1 stereo file so that it can be burned to CD-R with an Audio CD creation tool, but MUST be played back via digital outputs into a Dolby Digital Decoder or it will not work. The problem is going to be that you must first decode the "normal" DVD type Dolby Digital file to wav, then re encode to DD-WAV. This will inevitably result in quality loss, as DD files are about the same compression ratio as MP3. You must decode first as the sample rate will be wrong, and the file is the wrong type.
