How to author a DVD with audio only?

[raquete]

Excuse if was asked before, i could not find the answer in the search.

I want to author an Audio DVD, not a DVD Audio with black blackground or simple picture with audio only!
I don't care about images, i want to hear the sound!

The Audio used will be AC3 or DTS in 5.1 channels.

I prefer free and simple programs cos i don't use DVDLabPro a long time and sincerely i forgot how to use it.

Any help please?

[tebasuna51]

Do you need to burn a DVD?

Specify your player, how it connects to your sound system, and its capabilities.

I play any AC3/DTS file with MPC_HC on my PC, sending/decoding it via HDMI to my Denon AVR.

[Emulgator]

If you want a physical disc I can suggest to mux it as DVD-Video.
Did that numerous times as multi-CD-disc editions in DVDLabPro2.
Main menu with album selection.
As you jump into an album you get (per audio track) 1 still showing artist + track name.

Muxman can do that too, but I am not sure about the stills per track.
One background per title I guess.

(DVD-Audio: You need a DVD-Audio muxer (!) plus there are not many DVD-Audio capable players around)

[raquete]

ebasuna51,
I can use a DVD player to play the DVD.

My receiver has an HDMI input, as well as coaxial and optical inputs.

But I have no way to send the audio via HDMI to the receiver's HDMI input.

My notebook with HDMI is too far from the receiver and I would need a cable longer than 10 meters to connect them... that's out of the question.

Or I can use an authored DVD to play on the DVD player using the optical or coaxial connection.

🤔I think I can use a USB drive to play 5.1 DTS and/or AC3 audio directly on the receiver, but I don't know if it will work!

If it happens to work using a Pendrive with 5.1 audio in the receiver's USB input and the 5.1 audio is perfectly reproduced, problem solved, I don't need to author anything, just put the music on the Pen drive(or in a big external HD) and play it in the receiver's USB input.
I don't know if it work!

That's why I want to author a DVD with 5.1 DTS or AC3 audio to play on one of my three DVD players and/or use a Sony Blu-ray player that plays SACD ISO files.

🎆✨ Idea: If is hard to get my target authoring a dvd, i'll will use a 'tower' with I3 that have 7.1 audio out and have HDMI out too.
i will connect the 'Tower' HDMI out to HDMI of the receiver to play the 5.1 audio using foobar and the 5.1 can be wave files in 192k 24bit for example.
Will be much better than DTS or AC3, right?

Emulator
Yes, that's the idea... a physical disc to multiplex as DVD-Video (with 5.1 audio, that's the goal).

I don't care about the background image, it can be a black image, a pretty girl or a UFO, I won't see the image, I just want to hear the audio!

I used DVDLab, GoLand Audio DVD Creator and GUI to DVD Author, among others, a long time ago, but honestly, I'm old and I've forgotten a lot and how to use these programs.

In the past, I used CCE and waited more than a day to make a simple DVD; now my patience has run out and my memory has followed suit.

I don't want a dvd-audio, i want a audio dvd(a dvd with audio 5.1 in Video_ts folder that can be played in 'all' dvd players.

➡️Muxman can do that? Just teach me or send me a guide page.

Thank you both! ✨🥇☼☼☼☼☼

[tebasuna51]

How to create a DVD with a single image and DTS/AC3 audio:

1) We need a DVD-compatible video and audio file.
Create a folder with all the audio files you want to include, and also:
- a pal.jpg (720x576) or ntsc.jpg (720x480) image file, depending on your system
- a copy of ffmpeg.exe (not necessary if it's in the system PATH)
- one of the attached command files, depending on your system
- run the command file, for example, AC3-PAL, which does the following:

copy /B *.ac3 audio.ac3

to combine all the audio files into one and

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i pal.jpg -i audio.ac3 -shortest -target pal-dvd DVD_PAL.mpg

To create a DVD-compatible video.

2) Drag and drop the created DVD_PAL.mpg file into an authoring program.
I recommend DVDStyler (https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?sc=128)
It's relatively up-to-date, portable, and free.
I tested it by creating an ISO image, and it works well. It also has help for other features like chapters, menus, etc.

[raquete]

How to create a DVD with a single image and DTS/AC3 audio:

1) We need a DVD-compatible video and audio file.
Create a folder with all the audio files you want to include, and also:
- a pal.jpg (720x576) or ntsc.jpg (720x480) image file, depending on your system
- a copy of ffmpeg.exe (not necessary if it's in the system PATH)
- one of the attached command files, depending on your system
- run the command file, for example, AC3-PAL, which does the following:

copy /B *.ac3 audio.ac3

to combine all the audio files into one and

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i pal.jpg -i audio.ac3 -shortest -target pal-dvd DVD_PAL.mpg

To create a DVD-compatible video.

2) Drag and drop the created DVD_PAL.mpg file into an authoring program.
I recommend DVDStyler (https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?sc=128)
It's relatively up-to-date, portable, and free.
I tested it by creating an ISO image, and it works well. It also has help for other features like chapters, menus, etc.

As i always write around the forums in the whole world:
tebasuna51 is a friendly, very wise person and have enormeous good will to help.
He knows 'everything' about audio.
i always recomend you tebasuna51 for users in outside forums to call your help.
My sisncere opinion as electronc technician for more than 45 years(now retired) and with audio as hobby(is my center of the universe) for more that 66 years: you're a genious. You can transmit with extreme facility the solution of the problems.
I know you for more than 24 years tebasuna51, a long time ago i had another username here...i think that i'm here in doom9 for more than 30 years and you always was my preferencial reference.
You're ablessed person, you can transmit your great personality and knowledge in your posts.
you're a shining star in Doom9. ✨:helpful:

Gold medals for you.🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
Thank you for magnific solution!:thanks: 👍
➡️ God bless you!
(Jorge Luiz)

PS: this page was saved as .pdf

[raquete]

Off topic (?) maybe but i don't want a new thread for a simple doubt

i have 2 old notebooks(Itautec 2009 and love both)
The headphone output is optical output too(red light is there all the time)

IF i use this optical output from Notebook to the optical input of the Micro System, i'll have 5.1 AC3 audio?

[Columbo]

Yes if the application is outputting AC3 5.1 and the port is configured for passthru. YMMV

[tebasuna51]

...
IF i use this optical output from Notebook to the optical input of the Micro System, i'll have 5.1 AC3 audio?

Listen a channel test yourself. Dolby Digital Ac3 5.1.mp4 from:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JxmeedtAtgmoafXv9rroiDOS2vEX7N4b

[raquete]

Listen a channel test yourself. Dolby Digital Ac3 5.1.mp4 from:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JxmeedtAtgmoafXv9rroiDOS2vEX7N4b

I'm still connecting the new devices, since I have some Bluetooth (surround) speakers, I'm adding another subwoofer, connecting a Blu-ray player, a DVD player, the notebook with optical output, and 'learning' how to use the new home theater system. (The remote control has 'billions of functions', it looks like a piano full of keys and drives anyone crazy.)
Thank you for the precious link with the Dolby Digital AC3 5.1.mp4 playlist to test, tebasuna51. :-)

Columbo,
thank you too for secure information. :-)

[raquete]

Tebasuna51, ✨✨✨✨✨
you are very talented, you teach with great ease and are objective with generous patience to teach anxious people like me.

I achieved perfect results following your instructions. 🥳
(https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=2031826#post2031826)

I burned a DVD with three AC3 files for testing and everything is fine!😊

I just need to learn how to use one chapter per song...

Cheers and thank you very much again! :thanks:

[raquete]

tebasuna51
No matter how hard I try, racking my brain, I can't get the expected result, and I'm turning to you for help once again.

i'm using the AC3-NTSC.bat :
copy /B *.ac3 audio.ac3
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i ntsc.jpg -i audio.ac3 -shortest -target ntsc-dvd DVD_NTSC.mpg
pause
This .bat give the complete album as only one track.

Have a way to change the .bat to do one .mpg for each music with the name of the music? (one chapter for each music with the music name)

[Columbo]

You didn't say what was unexpected in your result!

My understanding is that *.ac3 in a batch file does not sort the way you think. In fact, it doesn't sort at all. You just get the file table ordering. Windows Explorer however is designed to use natural sorting. Easiest is to use explicit ordering:

copy /b file1.ac3+file2.ac3+file3.ac3 audio.ac3

which defeats the idea of a general batch file.

It's very tricky to get natural ordering. You can try:

for /f "delims=" %%f in ('dir /b /on *.ac3') do (
echo %%f
)

But that gives you lexicographic, not natural. So track2.ac3 comes before track10.ac3 but track10.ac3 comes before track9.ac3.

Finally, there are caveats with concatenating .ac3 files that you must be aware of.

[tebasuna51]

...
Have a way to change the .bat to do one .mpg for each music with the name of the music? (one chapter for each music with the music name)

Of course, replace the two lines with (or dts/ntsc):

for %%A in (*.ac3) do ffmpeg -loop 1 -i pal.jpg -i "%%A" -shortest -target pal-dvd "%%A.mpg"

Also you can create a image for each chapter, if you have tracks like:

01 Roxane.ac3
...
and you create a image for each ac3 like:

01 Roxane.jpg
...

You can use:
for %%A in (*.ac3) do ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "%%~nA.jpg" -i "%%A" -shortest -target pal-dvd "%%~nA.mpg"