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[malsackj]

I was looking around on Surround Sound and will be working with Pro Sound (Richard) and his Yamaha 01V96 mixer this weekend.

So the question is can we record to a DVD or CD the Dolby Digital.

I found this.

http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/

Will work on this over the weekend and holiday and just wanted to share with you all to help with storing some of your music.

 

[PaulyT]

Cool!

 

[Kazaam]

Have fun and best of luck!

Though I'm not entirely sure I follow exactly what you're trying to do. Are you actually trying to create new 5.1 mixes? Or are you hoping to archive the existing 5.1 Mixes of commercially sold DVD-Audio albums onto DVDs/CDs?

I once upon a time did something similar to the latter when I converted a bunch of the DVD-A and SACDs in my collection into 5.1 DTS-CDs. And then digitally ripped those to a hard drive for wireless playback playback from my laptop to my surround system for my personal use. Granted, I had hit and miss results due to the fact I have no real skill and was merely doing stuff not unlike analog dubbing of cassettes from decades ago. I hooked up the analog outs from the Dvda/sacd player into the analog inputs of a Creative Soundblaster device which then converted the analog signal to digital and essentially it covered/created/outputted a 5.1 DTS signal via Toslink (surprisingly, at 44.1khz 16 bit which made for playable DTS-CDs after that loud burst of white noise before the receivers decoder kicked in). So so I merely sent that optical signal to the Toslink input on a home market component sized CD REcorder that only accepted those royalty paid special CD-Rs. No computer programs. No computer at all since the Creatvie device was essentially a standalone box.

It was kind of a fun project for me at the time, but a very long, cumbersome and inelegant process.