Pro 17 & Hauppauge Capture, any hope for render audio in 5.1 surround?

AlanMintaka wrote on 12/13/2024, 11:38 AM

I have a Hauppauge HD PVR Pro 60 which is capturing program audio with TS video and audio in MPEG version 1 layer 2. This can be exported to MP4 video with AAC LC audio. Since Pro17 can't deal with TS files, I've been trying to build a project using the MP4 with AAC LC audio files. I'd like to get 5.1 surround if I can. I tried duping channels until I had 6, then used the surround pan to set up all the channels with one LFE only. Then I tried to use the Microsoft wave rendering profile, multichannel processing mapping enabled, with 48,000Hz,16 Bit, 5.1 PCM.

With multichannel processing mapping enabled, nothing at all happens when I click on "Render." Without mulichannel mapping enabled, I get an error message saying that the output file exceeds the max for the specified format. Obviously I don't know what I'm doing. Is there anything I can do to render the audio in 5.1 surround?

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john_dennis wrote on 12/13/2024, 1:40 PM

@AlanMintaka said: "Is there anything I can do to render the audio in 5.1 surround?"

Try rendering AVC/AAC with Voukoder. (Link: VEGAS Pro (Older Versions)

AlanMintaka wrote on 12/14/2024, 8:31 AM

@AlanMintaka said: "Is there anything I can do to render the audio in 5.1 surround?"

Try rendering AVC/AAC with Voukoder. (Link: VEGAS Pro (Older Versions)

Thanks for the pointer, John. I didn't have any luck with the Pro version but got the classic version to render a 6-channel audio stream into a single ac3 file. At the moment, however, I have no means of testing it because I am having activation problems with DVDA (they want me to deactivate another device first and I cannot login; a ticket is open). I only know what I see by inspect with Mediainfo that it is a 6 channel file and seems to meet all the technical requirements. The only thing is... the ac3 file is so damned small. A 2 hour 6 channel MPEG layer 1 stream was rendered down into 270,000 bytes. Is this kind of size reduction typical?