I successfully authored my first DVD on Linux today, with the mjpegtool and dvdauthor suites of commandline tools. Not that my creation is very content rich, it’s just some menus and slideshows with audio. I’ve started to compile all infomation I have into a long and detailed note regarding how to use the various tools to author a DVD. A work in progress copy can be found here of my DVD Primer.
MPEG-2 coded stereo soundtrack can be encoded with the exelent tooLAME tool, and a multi-channel 5.1 soundtrack can be created using the companion mctooLAME tool. It also looks possible to encode audio as AC-3 tracks using the Transcode utility, at least stereo, while waiting for the AC3 Project to produce some usable software.
A very well written general overview of multi-channel surround sound and its history can be found at ExtremeTech.
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