5.1 surround not working on DVD

dannyoneill wrote on 10/4/2006, 11:09 AM
Hi, I have a problem in that any DVD I make doesnt appear to have surround sound when played in my DVD player. When inserted into my PC powerdvd says it is 6ch 5.1 surround sound but when I put the disk in my DVD player it says its Dolby D but only comes out of the left and right speaker. None of the others.

But put a commercial DVD in and it plays on all 5 main speakers fine.

I have created a 5.1 project in vegas with all channels seperate. I know it works as I have also exported the project as AIFF files and it creates the six files all with the sound I would expect coming from each.

I then export to a 5.1 AC3 file and the MPEG and create a new project in DVD architect with 5.1 as the sound format, import the file and burn. But play on DVD player (a philips) it just will not come out of the rear speakers.

My versions are
DVDA - 4 build 125
Vegas - 7.0a build 115

I have scoured the web and read the help and it looks like ive done everything possible. Below is a screenshot of my project.
http://public.choir.it/vegas.jpg
http://public.choir.it/dvda.jpg

Comments

ForumAdmin wrote on 10/4/2006, 2:25 PM
A 5.1 channel rendering problem in Vegas 7.0a (not Dolby related) has been discovered and fixed. The fix will be part of a Vegas 7.0b general update, which will be released "very soon".

-sms