SURROUND SOUND WITHOUT AN ENCODER?
Of course, you can burn surround mixes onto CDs/DVDs even without special
encoders; you burn your mix as a multitrack file (or as individual audio tracks).
However, such CDs/DVDs can only be played in the respective computer drive so
you can import the file into the computer and play it on the (multi-track) software
you used to initially produce the surround mix.
A freeware encoder that supports the surround function is also available. You
can get the “WINDOWS
®
Media Encoder 9” at the MICROSOFT
®
homepage
(www.microsoft.com
) under “WINDOWS
®
Media” (WMEncoder.exe, v. 9). Use
this encoder to produce surround recordings with data compression. The software
player decodes the surround signal correspondingly. This multi-channel surround
encoding/decoding is indeed available for free and accessible to anyone, but it is
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