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harpseal
15th July 2004, 00:44
Okay, so I have some Hi-Fi VHS recordings of some of our DJ's that are quite lenghty, say 3-4 hours. I can handle capturing the audio on my PC into MP3, WMA, etc. (most likely will do high bit-rate MP3 just for ease and reasonable enough quality) Anyway, my question is, how can I put this on a DVD that will play in a standard stand-alone DVD player? :confused: I know I can obviously burn the MP3(s) to it as a DVD-ROM, but that won't get me anywhere on many (most?) players. I don't know much about the DVD-Audio format but I think there are many players, maybe excepting newer models, that won't play that either. Can I just have an audio stream with no video? Do I just need to have some basic blah video to mix with the audio stream? I don't have video capture per se on my PC but I can get video in other ways obviously. Can I do this with Nero6 Ultra? I'm pretty decent at working with all the great freeware out here so is here something there I should use that's better? I don't want to spend hours at the PC to make this happen though, I just want it to basically play the music when I stick the DVD in a player, nothing fancy yet.

Any help is appreciated. Just get me pointed in the right direction and I can usually figure the rest out.

echooff
15th July 2004, 14:04
Dvd specs calls for ac3(dolby digital surround) or pcm(wav) in ntsc land. In pal land they also get to use mp2. Mp3 is not allowed. You can have a audio stream without a video. You substitue a still picture. I would at least spend the time to add chapter points between songs so you can skip around if desired. Pcm files are hugh but ac3 should allow several tapes on each dvd. Several threads discuss this.