Hello!

I've been converting a lot of old videos to store on DVD and Blu-Ray. Most of that stuff has 2-channel, stereophonic, sound.

Most of the explanations of what it is are very sketchy, at best. This is especially true in the PowerDirector Help pages. - Explanations of how to use it are pretty much nonexistent.

I imagined that it would synthesize the audio tracks into a 4/5 channel equivalent to give it more dimension. That sounded interesting.

As an experiment I attempted to use it on the MP4 output from two-channel video, expecting to see a multi-channel soundtrack in the output. I was rather puzzled when I found it had only two channels. (I use MediaInfo to examine the technical detail of my audio/video files.)

And the playback didn't sound any different than the original.

Assuming that nothing had changed, I burned the project to a Blu-Ray disk, also specifying TrueTheater surround in the >Create Disk menu.

The audio on the disk was still stereo and sounded awful.

My questions: What is TrueTheater surround and what does it really do? More importantly: How is it used and how to use it?

If anyone has answers to these questions, please respond.

Thanks,

PDWhite