• Compression Techniques

  WMV and 5.1 sound

  Posted by Stephane Bastien on June 19, 2006 at 6:54 pm

  If I encode a WMV video with a 5.1 audio track can a regular receiver play it back in 5.1?

  Or is it possible to encode a WMV with a AC3 track?

  Thanks

  Stephane

  Erik Pontius replied 19 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Daniel_l

  June 21, 2006 at 4:05 pm

  No. (Needs to be Windows Media compatible)

  No. (Incompatible and ‘competitive’ formats)

  Video AllSorts
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  Stephane Bastien

  June 22, 2006 at 7:42 pm

  Thanks for the info,

  So to playback 5.1 I need to use and AVI and have the sound encoded in AC3 format?

  Stephane
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  Erik Pontius

  June 28, 2006 at 2:56 pm

  Might want to check out Microsoft’s Windows Media knowledge base. Here’s an article specifically on producing multi-channel audio WMV.

  https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/Multichannel.aspx

  Erik

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