DTS to Dolby Digital Audio CD or DTS Audio CD (using Foobar2000 special installer with DTS-Plugin)
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The methods described refer to:

• creating an audio CD out of a Music/Concert-DVD keeping the multichannel tracks (Dolby Digital or DTS).
  This CD is only playable if the CD-Player is digitally connected with the receiver and the receiver has a decoder for AC3 and/or DTS built in.

• creating a Dolby Digital CD out of a DTS-CD

There's a difference in compatibility of DTS CD and Dolby Digital CD.

• DTS-CDs are standardized and are playable on every receiver with a DTS-Dekoder.

• Dolby Digital CDs are not standardized and may therefore  be not playable on every receiver

Creating multichannel CDs:

(1) Dolby Digital Audio CD using BeSweet/HeadAC3he
(2) DTS Audio CD using BeSweet
(3) DTS Audio CD using BeSure

(4) Batchfile for Dolby Digital-/DTS Audio CD

(1) Dolby Digital Audio CD:

Needed software: Foobar2000, BeSweet, HeadAC3He (latest versions available at http://www.needfulthings.webhop.org/)

As my receiver doesn't play DD-WAVs created with BeSweet, I used HeadAC3he in this guide to wrap the AC3 into the WAV file.
HeadAC3he has another advantage, it wraps the AC3 without any quality loss or reencoding into the wave file.
BeSweet always reencodes the AC3 with 640KBit/s CBR.

• BeSweet DD-WAV -> AC3 gets reencoded with 640KBit/s CBR
  which means an AC3 file with 384KBit/s gets reencoded with 640KBit/s and then wraped in a wave file.

• HeadAC3he AC3-WAV -> AC3 gets wraped into a wave file without reencoding with its original bitrate and thus without any loss of quality.
  which means an AC3-file with 384KBit/s gets wraped in a wave with 384KBit/s.

If your sources are in Dolby Digital Format (AC3) in 44KHz then begin with step 4!
If you have a sampling freaquency other than 44KHz you have to reencode.

Use Foobar2000 to separate the DTS tracks into 6 mono wave files.
If your tracks come from a DVD with 48KHz, then use resampler to change sampling frequency to 44,1KHz (see steps 1-7 Separate into 6 mono WAVs using Foobar2000 (special installer).

Steps:

1. Use a text editor to create a text file with the 6 mono Wavs for BeSweet. Use exact order. Change extension to ".MUX"
   Dateiname.wavFL.wav
   Dateiname.wavC.wav
   Dateiname.wavFR.wav
   Dateiname.wavSL.wav
   Dateiname.wavSR.wav
   Dateiname.wavLFE.wav
   
   Extension has to be ".mux"
   
   Or use BeSweet Mux Wizzard to create such a file (in BeLight it's already integrated):
   
   

2. Load MUX-file into BeSweet GUI
    

3. Possibility 1 (does not work for me!):
    
   Choose DD-WAV as destination format or simply choose preset "AC3 for Dolby Digital CD".
   With this a dolby digital wave file gets created with 640KBits CBR.
    
   
    
   Just burn these wave files to an Audio CD as you would do normally. You're done.
    
   Example: BeSweet -core( -input "quelle.MUX" -output "dolbywav.wav" -ddwav )
 
 
Possibility 2 (Recommended!):
    
   Choose AC3 5.1 as destination format, choose bitrate and encode as normal AC3
   If you would like to normalize you may do so as well shown in figure below.
    
   
   
    

4. Load the created AC3 file into HeadAC3he to wrap it into a wave file which you are able to burn on an Aduio CD. For that choose "Destination Format" "AC3-WAV" (and "Destination File" if you want to name it differently)
    
   
    
   Burn the resulting wave files as audio CD. You're done.

(2) DTS Audio CD (Method 1):

You need Minnetonkas commercial SurCode CD DTS Encoder!
Set up paths to surcode in BeSweetGUI and here we go

Either

• For direct BeSweet conversion the commercial WinDVD has to be installed. As source feed the DTS file in. Use BeSliced or DTS-parser to fix stream header or DTS stream (procedure similar to separate to 6 mono WAVs using azidts: see step 4-> WinDVD filter gets used).

Or

• Separate in 6 mono WAVs using Foobar2000. See steps 1-7
  or Separate into 6 mono WAVs with Tranzcode (fast method)

1. Use a text editor to create a text file with the 6 mono Wavs for BeSweet. Use exact order. Change extension to ".MUX".
   Dateiname.wavFL.wav
   Dateiname.wavC.wav
   Dateiname.wavFR.wav
   Dateiname.wavSL.wav
   Dateiname.wavSR.wav
   Dateiname.wavLFE.wav
   
   Extension has to be ".mux"
   
   Or use BeSweet Mux Wizzard to create such a file (in BeLight it's already integrated):
   
   

2. Load MUX-file into BeSweetGUI and choose preset for DTS CD. Finished.
   
   

(3) DTS Audio CD from DVD 48KHz material (Method 2):
(very similar as guide of Eye of Horus http://www.app.demon.nl/DTSguide.htm)

Fastest method using BeSure and Minnetonkas commercial SurCode CD DTS Encoder.
WinDVD full version has also to be installed.
Only works with 48KHz Sources!

1. Fix all DTS tracks with BeSliced oder DTS-parser (->Fix File) to obtain the real DTS from the DTSWAV files
   You get ".DTS" files.

2. Trick BeSure and use it with Azidts -> Important! Replace BeSweet with Azidts (see figure below!)
   
   
   
   
   

3. Add all your DTS tracks (file dialog only AC3/VOB or All supported-> click on all files and insert your DTS-tracks)

4. Click "Go" and wait a long time until all files are converted :-)

5. You'll get DTS WAV files you are able to burn as audio CD

(4) Batchfile for Dolby Digital-/DTS-CDs
[Note: I only tested it with AC3 files]

Needed software:

-BeSweet
-HeadAC3He 0.24a13	http://www.needfulthings.webhop.org/
-SurCode	needed only for DTS encoding
(Batchdatei - Download)	[Downloads: ]

After extraction of your tracks from DVD or DTS-CD you've got a lot of tracks in one folder. Doing the above mentioned steps for every track would take a long time. So I wrote this little batch file which speeds up the process alot. .

What's teh batch file good for??

From all tracks (which have to be multichannel wave with a sampling frequency of 44KHz) that lie in one folder it creates

• AC3 and AC3-Wave files (DDWAV)
  or

• DTS files
  or

• DTS-Wave files (DTSWAV)

and normalizes these.

How does it work?Wie funktioniert's? 

As described in these guides use Foobar2000 or Tranzcode to create a multichannel Wave files from the DTS tracks. Copy the batch file to the folder in which your multichannel wave files reside. Open the command prompt an use the commandline as described below.

Example: to create an AC3(Wav) with 448 KBit/s you would write: Encode.bat ac3 448

Before you can use the bat file you have to edit Encode.bat and change/correct the paths to: BeSweet, HeadAC3he and SurCode (only if used)

Note: Filenames of tracks have to be short. It's best to rename your multichannel wave files before conversion (e.g. 1.wav, 2.wav etc.), Else the batchfile might not work because BeSweet doe not like very long file names especially with spaces in it.

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