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Originally Posted by ahjteam  I'm not sure if this is in the correct subforum, if not, please move it to the correct subforum...
I have a 5.1 mix I did a while ago, I have it as six 24bit 48khz wav files (L, R, C, Ls, Rs and Lfe), and I want to make a single file out of it to send it to the band. What format should I use (AC-3?) and what software (preferrably free) do I need to convert it into something that can be listened on a software media player or on a physical dvd-player? Stereo mixdown is not an option. |
I would certainly not use AC3.
It sounds terrible for music mixes, smearing the hell out of all the transients & generally sounding as if someone put a sack over the speakers.
Yuk.
If your band is surround savvy, they will doubtless be able to play DTS-CD, and you can buy (sorry, but encoders cost money) the SurCode DTS-CD encoder for $99.
Downside is you will need to resample to 24-44.1, but that is all & you will be able to write the output to a straight CD-R and get discrete surround in a better quality by quite a long way compared to AC3.
VLC Media Player will play this.
Most DVD players will output either the decoded 6 channels or else a bitstream to a decoder in an amplifier.
You can use FLAC of course, but that will be limited to computer playback on a player with FLAC support - again, VLC will do this