grrrr.
now I know why I should have bought a 5,.1 speaker rig for my computer. cut the test disc is the only way to test the 5.1 sound.
pluses.
menu's look bloody marvellous
menus' work completely, I got that part down cold first time.
film looks great. one teeny tiny one frame glitch mid way through but I doubt anyone but me will notice.
all other sound tracks are fine
minus
5.1 track still not right. odd areas where it goes loud then quiet. now on the computer it sounds fine so I am wondering if the AC3 encoder is doing it during compression. I am also doubting if it really is worth the grief. I could after all do it as a 2.0 track that sounds fine but after all the work, I just gotta try and make this happen.
so I will try a new encoder in the next few days once I've looked at the film all the way through to identify the problem areas and see where the problem lies.
one option is to AC3 the 2.0 PCM track to free up some space and try this 5.1 track as a 5.1 half bite rate DTS track which still makes it 300bps higher than an equivalent 5.1 dolby track.