feature request: mono sound

Hi, there are a lot of old movies available on dvd which have mono sound. And there will come much more in the future. As I read in the forum u have to convert the sound manual to get a mono mp2 file. Wouldn't it be a nice feature to add mono to the audio tab? ;) Alex

Why would there be more mono movies in the future? o_O;

I have a feeling that years after this program has stopped being developed people will still be asking for things that really have no use beyond their needs. As you already said you can do this manually if need be. Mark

I'll look into it. I have a few other things I wanna finish first.

Cool-I was researching this after I posted, and found that quite a few non-American movies from the '80s and '90s have been released with mono sound tracks. To give 2 examples, the John Woo-Chow Yun-Fat films and have mono audio. These are great films by any standard (doesn't everyone like extreme violence? :)).

Many TV Series that are released these days have the non-english soundtracks in artificial stereo, i.e. 2x mono. Star Trek TNG is just one example. I remember asking for a way to do this some time ago. I also remember, that besweet was producing stereo, upon setting mono for input. Never figured it out, because I simply decided that it wasn't worth the time to actually do it manually.

All the mono movies I have seen are two channel mono so I can't see why encoding it with stereo settings will adversly effect it. Mark

@markrb you end up with a smaller audio track. So you can have more bitrate for the picture. Alex