How to transcode audio to AC3?
With the build in audio transcode tool you can call other audio encoders with commandline settings. One example could be the free BeSweet, but please make sure you understand the risks. BeSweet used ac3enc is not tested, nor licenced from Dolby and that means few things: using it may be illegal since you are using software which didn’t pay royalties for the Dolby patents (you may be liable for this) and also nobody will tell you for sure if ac3 created by beSweet is really up to specs. Anyway, if you still want to try it then here is example of the command line you can enter to the Audio Transcode in DVD-lab: External exe should point to BeSweet.exe and the commandline should be exactly: -core( -input $INPUT -output $OUTPUT ) -azid( -n1 -c normal -L -3db –maximize ) -ssrc( –rate 48000 ) -ac3enc( -b 224 ) …also select Output is ac3 for the correct extension. You can change the bitrate in the last command in ac3enc, here is 224kBps. Anyway, for any serious dvdmaker there are number o
