Hi,
Quite often with the newer movies when re-authoring them with DVD Shrink you are given an option to tick AC3 2 Channel or AC3 5.1 Channel. If you tick both is there a way of selecting either of them on your stand alone DVD player considering the menu no longer exists as I only keep the main movie and if there isn't which one will the DVD player automatically select?
As creaky states just use the 5.1, the 2 channel usually contain the Directors Comments and a lot of DVD standalone players will default to the 2 channel and you will not have the movie audio.
Thanks very much creaky and arniebear, you've been a great help. I'll just select the 5.1 only from now on instead of both. I'm watching my movies through a stereo TV at the moment but may upgrade to a 5.1 system one day so it's good to know everything is in place. I've been extracting movies using DVD Decrypter then DVD Shrink. I was quite amazed when I was able to shrink 'The Abyss Special Edition' (164 minutes) onto a 4.7Gb DVD. It looks really good, no problems anywhere, I've shrunk some from as low as 65%, you don't seem to lose too much quality at all. I always thought if you went below 90% using Shrink the picture was going to look really bad, however that doesn't seem to be the case. Thanks again.
i've never done the Abyss yet, i think mine's the extended version too.
it's horses for courses re the compression/quality. i love DVD Shrink, the lowest i ever have to go is probably 80% compression-wise as i only ever do movie-only plus 5.1 sound. I've got a 5.1 system now and the sound is awesome, makes you wonder why you tolerate just stereo after hearing 5.1 in a room. (especially for me as my tv is a 20yr old mono Sony!)
lol the sound is awesome, but i deliberately bought a system (Creative Inspire 5.1 GD580) that wasn't too powerful. but in my space, yup, it's very loud, but the hull of the boat/water does absorb most of the sound (especially the booming of the woofer!)
I don't think it wiil be too long before I get a 5.1 system after hearing those reports. I have a large VHS video collection that I am starting to replace, now that region 4 DVD's are rapidly flooding the market. Too expensive to buy, but cheap to hire. So I guess my leap from VHS video to DVD stereo is a little like the mono to 5.1 leap.
