jerryshadoe said:

@ hofverberg - So far, there is a total of 5 audio tracks (will be six once I have your Swedish dub rips) and they are English in LPCM (as to not degrade the lossy audio even more by converting back to lossy ) English AC3 (for those that don't care about the audio being re-encoded), Polish AC3, German AC3, Russian AC3. From what I can tell, all English & German episodes are in stereo. Some of the Polish and Russian ones are in stereo and some are mono. All intros/end credits are in stereo.

I would personally recommend skipping the uncompressed LPCM audio track on the DVD, and just make one English audio track in AC3 with a generously high bitrate. LPCM audio would be very useful for the untouched material on Blu-Ray, but is in my opinion overkill on DVD.

LPCM audio takes up very much valuable space, which would be better used for raising the video bitrate. On DVD, LPCM can practically only be used when there's very little on each disc or when using DVD9 (dual layer media). With a good AC3 encoder and a high bitrate (such as 256 kbit/sec in stereo or 128 kbit/sec in mono), it should be quite hard to distinguish that audio from the lossless one.

As season 1 consists of 22 episodes, my recommendation would be to alternate between 4 and 5 episodes per disc in order to make the season use 5 full DVDs (I e 3 discs with 4 episodes each and 2 discs with 5 episodes each). That makes most sense in my opinion, to keep the number of discs to a reasonable number while still maintaining a very good quality.