how did you seperate the captured stereo PCM into the seperate dolby channels? particularly for the center dialogue channel? was this done using vegas or something?
I ask because I think splicing and mixing the new 5.1DVD ac3 in relation to the original stuff might be too much work, but it doesn't mean I can't pinch elements of it. however if we can take the PCM, and turn it into at least a reasonable surround track AC3 with a seperate dialogue centre channel that would be a big improvement."
2.0 to 5.1 Pro-logic.
Vegas was used simply to recombine the 5 WAVs into an AC3 file.
Here's a test I did, taking the Jaws AC3 file and panning some of the sounds from one speaker to another. It's subtle, but it's there (again, unless you have a 5.1 system, don't bother.)
I was working on a similar file, where all the speakers rotated around in circles, but I apparently never finished it, and deleted the files. Maybe I'll redo it tonight. It was pretty cool at the time.