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Rare VHS in Dolby Surround?
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Originally posted by: WVGuitar
I recently won a copy of the rare 1986 Super Mario Bros. theatrically realeased anime movie. Only five or six copies are known to be in circulation, and I would like to get it out into the SMB/Nintendo fan community. The box says the tape is in Dolby surround sound, but my television only has stereo speakers. If I'm burning a copy to DVD, what do I need to do to keep the original sound mix intact?
I recently won a copy of the rare 1986 Super Mario Bros. theatrically realeased anime movie. Only five or six copies are known to be in circulation, and I would like to get it out into the SMB/Nintendo fan community. The box says the tape is in Dolby surround sound, but my television only has stereo speakers. If I'm burning a copy to DVD, what do I need to do to keep the original sound mix intact?
Just rip the audio as a stereo wav file or compressed ac3. It isn't Dolby Digital, so it will only need the two channels.
Here is more info.
Dolby Surround is the consumer version of the original Dolby multichannel analog film sound format (Dolby analog and Dolby SR [Spectral Recording]). When a Dolby Surround soundtrack is produced, four channels of audio information—Left, Center, Right, and Mono surround—are matrix-encoded onto two audio tracks. These two tracks are then carried on stereo program sources such as videotapes and TV broadcasts into the home, where they can be decoded by Dolby Pro Logic® to recreate the original four-channel surround sound experience.
A result of Dolby's expertise in matrix surround processing, Dolby Pro Logic was the foundation for multichannel home theater, and was the reference decoder for creating the surround sound audio tracks in thousands of commercially available videocassettes, laser discs, DVDs, and television programs.
With the introduction of the Dolby Digital multichannel film sound format, Dolby Digital has replaced Dolby Surround as the preferred technology to deliver multichannel audio to consumers via DVD-Video, digital television, and games. However, every Dolby Digital decoder also provides a Dolby Pro Logic-compatible stereo signal on its analog outputs.
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If you're using PCM or MP2 audio, the surround information will still be present, but the listener must activate processing manually.