5.1 mp3s

[rcf1987]

I have a lot of mp3s and was wondering how to encoded them in 5.1 dolby or 5.1 dts. Is there a good program I should get. I wanna encode them in 5.1 burn them to a cd or dvd, I have both resources, and play them in my dvd player on my home theater system.

 

[HRslammR]

i would think that they'd have to be in 5.1 to start out with. but even then i don't think it's really that possible.

 

[Korgun]

you can't encode them in 5.1 and even if there is a ghetto way to do it - don't.

first off the quality is already lost, anything else you do to it wil lose even more quality

if you have an mp3 encoded at 128 if you re-encode it into 320, you will just increase the size and actually the quality will be lower than the original 128 you started out with.

this is even going to be worse if you somehow manage to encode the file from a streo to surround sound

 

[thomase]

I think a lot of music (from CDs at least) is already included in Dolby Surround. Basically this means that the rear channel (sorry, its mono only) is hidden in the stereo signal by adding it into both right and left but directly out of phase with eachother. The center channel is merely the part of the sound signal that is exactly the same from the left and right (but in phase). The Prologic decoder in your receiver can extract the center and surround channels. Even if the music is not explicity Suround encoded, it should sound wider if you send it though the Prologic decoder. I don't know how MP3 compression effects the quality of the matrix-encoded surround channel however....