I have used it very succesfully creating 24bit files from stereo vinyl restorations. Although I havent created a 6 channel rendering yet by downmixing the stereo yet.

You mean upmixing 2>6ch. I am not aware WaveLab can do this.

Wave lab considers it downmixing:
Stereo Down Mixing
An important issue when creating DVD-Audio is stereo compatibility. Although surround playback devices are becoming more and more common, there are still many occasions when playback is done in stereo - when using headphones, boomboxes or computer monitors, for example. To make a DVD-Audio playable in stereo, you could include two versions of each track, one in surround and one in stereo. The problem with this solution is that it requires more storage space on the disc - there will be room for less music.

An alternative solution is to use Stereo Down Mixing tables. This means that you can specify how each surround channel should be represented in the stereo mix by supplying gain coefficients. When the DVD-Audio is played back on stereo equipment, the surround channels are combined to stereo - but they are "mixed" according to the coefficients you have specified. The left and right front signals are sent to the left and right channel respectively, with a slight attenuation.
- The center signal is sent in equal amounts to the left and right channel.
- The left and right surround (rear) signals are more heavily attenuated and sent to the left and right channel respectively.
- The LFE signal is not included at all in the down mix.

Intervideo has removed support for DVD-Audio in WinDVD7, I found this out when I tried to play a disc recently and playback was all screwed up, same disc in WinDVD6 played fine. After a reinstall of the OS on a virgin drive, it no longer recognizes the DVD-Audio portion, plus their website no longer even mentions DVD-Audio. I wasn't very impressed with Intervideo's response to this matter (I left it with asking if they were going to continue support for this format) and switched to a competitor.

I have not used it, but you could try:

DVD-AUDIO Solo 1.1
http://www.cirlinca.com/products.htm

"Import Wave and AIF audio files up to 192khz/24bits/6 channels"

"To download a free trial version of DVD-Audio Solo 1.1, click below. This is an evaluation version with full features, limited to burn 5 full DVDs and limited in time. When you are satisfied, you can purchase an Activation ID to permanently enable all the features and remove the watermarking on the pictures. You can uninstall DVD-Audio Solo at any time. The installation package size is 12 MB."

There is also this one, albeit 2-channel only:
http://home.comcast.net/~adobeman/DVDAGUI/

Hello Freaks,

I c there is a lot of talk on DVD-Audio.
I had a sort of similar problem. I am uanble to prepare a MP3 DVD that would play on my standalone Sony Home Theatre. Note that this system does play MP3 music loaded on the normal CD.

How did u manage to prepare a DVD audio that plays on a Standalone DVD player???
If u could inform me the steps involved as well as the software required, it would indeed be very helpful.

Please help.

DVD-Audio needs DVD players capable of the DVD-Audio standard. What you can do and will work a 100% is to make a "fake DVD-Audio". This can be done by creating a slide show and adding 1 track of music to each slide. Also you could try using audio dvd creater (shareware) which ou can get here: http://www.audio-dvd-creator.com/ . This software will produce DVD-Video discs with the audio tracks you choose. I think Ulead and Roxio have similar functions in some of their products.

Hello

I searched for these tools but I could not find them.

bcn_246 or anybody still have them ?

pjo

http://rapidshare.com/files/69238142...tools.rar.html

DVD-Audio>DVD-Audio is almost impossible due to the watermarking technology (DVD-Audio players will stop playback every 30 seconds on an invalid disc).

If you have a DTS player you can achive a very good DVD-Audio>DTS-CD transfer. It's not as good as the DVD-Audio MLP format, but alot better than the AC3 audio stored in video section of the disc.

Your best bet is to decode to WAV and then use SurCode DTS to encode back to DTS, then burn to CD.

Ben