Archiving LD to DVD

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"Leonid Makarovsky" <venom@cs.bu.edu> wrote in message
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> : Yeah, that's right. It's not AC-3, but rather few discs have that,
> : anyway.
>
> All of mine do. Actually I just noticed. Some of my LDs say Digital
Audio. Some
> others Digital Sound. What's the difference?

AC-3 means Dolby Digital 5.1, which was introduced in 1995. Relatively
few laserdiscs have AC-3.

"Digital Audio" and "Digital Sound" are the same thing, a PCM digital
stereo/surround soundtrack. Almost all laserdiscs since the mid-80s have
this.

 

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"Joshua Zyber" <jzyber@SPAMMERS-DROP-DEAD.mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> AC-3 means Dolby Digital 5.1, which was introduced in 1995. Relatively
> few laserdiscs have AC-3.

Actually doesn't AC-3 just mean DD? It could be anywhere from 1.0 to
3/3.1(DD EX)

> "Digital Audio" and "Digital Sound" are the same thing, a PCM digital
> stereo/surround soundtrack. Almost all laserdiscs since the mid-80s have
> this.
>
>

 

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> It could be anywhere from 1.0 to
>3/3.1(DD EX)

Dolby Digital comes in Mono, Stereo and 5.1 surround flavors. A more
advanced Dolby Digital EX (EXtended surround)codec exists also, which can be up
to 7.1 channels, but is usually limited to 6.1.
This compares to Dolby Pro-Logic Stereo (2-Channels), Dolby Pro-Logic
Surround (4.1 Channels) and Dolby Pro-Logic II and IIx which can be up to 5.1
channels. I personally prefer DTS.
It's only to bad that Sony's 8-channel SDDS system has never been
incorporated into home-audio equipment. A top-spec ES line Sony reciever with
DD, DD EX, DTS, DTS-ES, DTS 96/24, NEO:6, Pro-Logic II/IIx and SDDS decoding
might be enough to make me re-think buying a Sony A/V reciever. Of course, we'd
need SDDS mixes on our DVDs or the decoding would be worthless.

 

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"Biz" <biznospam@att.net> wrote in message
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> > AC-3 means Dolby Digital 5.1, which was introduced in 1995.
Relatively
> > few laserdiscs have AC-3.
>
> Actually doesn't AC-3 just mean DD? It could be anywhere from 1.0 to
> 3/3.1(DD EX)

As it relates to laserdisc, Dolby Digital was only used for 5.1
encoding. There are no laserdiscs with DD 1.0 or 2.0 soundtracks. DVD is
the only format to use that.

DD-EX is technically still a 3/2.1 (aka 5.1) format, but with a matrixed
rear center channel. So is DTS-ES Matrix. The only true 3/3.1 (aka 6.1)
sound format is DTS-ES Discrete.

 

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Joshua Zyber <jzyber@SPAMMERS-DROP-DEAD.mindspring.com> wrote:
: "Digital Audio" and "Digital Sound" are the same thing, a PCM digital
: stereo/surround soundtrack. Almost all laserdiscs since the mid-80s have
: this.

Thanks. Good to know.

--Leonid

 

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"Leonid Makarovsky" <venom@cs.bu.edu> wrote in message
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> Rick <deNOBULLlorean@dodo.com.au> wrote:
> : The long story short about grabbing the AC3 off of an LD is that you
HAVE TO
> : use the RF demodulator for your (digital) soundcard to understand the
>
> So basically you're saying that the signal has to go through an analog
phase,
> right?
>
> : the digital coaxial/optical cable. HOWEVER, this is NOT the same as the
PCM
> : soundtrack (ie the digital track on your LD disc that houses the
Pro-Logic
> : Surround soundtrack). Only a few LD players were ever fitted with a
digital
> : PCM line-out (the same thing as a digital-out on certain CD players) so
>
> So my LD player has digital coaxial audio out. I have used it to connect
it to
> my sound card (M-Audio series) S/PDIF in. On LD itself it says Digital
Audio.
> Was I doing the right thing? I think that I got it right and the digital
sound
> sounded better than analog.
>
> I did the video capture feeding sound just like I described above. I
captured
> the sound at 44.1kHz and as a post process resampled it to 48kHz for DVD.
>
> --Leonid

I may have missed a vital post here, but what model Laserdisc Player do you
own? It may help in us determining if you have certain features on it
instead of us having to explain everything in every little detail.

 

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Rick <deNOBULLlorean@dodo.com.au> wrote:
:> So my LD player has digital coaxial audio out. I have used it to connect
: it to
:> my sound card (M-Audio series) S/PDIF in. On LD itself it says Digital
: Audio.
:> Was I doing the right thing? I think that I got it right and the digital
: sound
:> sounded better than analog.
:>
:> I did the video capture feeding sound just like I described above. I
: captured
:> the sound at 44.1kHz and as a post process resampled it to 48kHz for DVD.
:>
:> --Leonid

: I may have missed a vital post here, but what model Laserdisc Player do you
: own? It may help in us determining if you have certain features on it
: instead of us having to explain everything in every little detail.

Hi Rick,

I use Pioneer Elite CLD52.

I have completed my project (see the thread called
"I finally x-ferred my first LD to DVD"). I think I did the right thing.
Sound turned out to be killer.

--Leonid