How to create DVD-Music disk?

[gasha]

I would like to create a DVD-Video disk that has only stereo audio in PCM format (so caled DVD-Music). The idea is to put several CDs on one DVD disk without losing quality (that is why I want PCM stream and not any lossy encoding) and be able to play it in my DVD player. How can I do that?

I am new to the forum, so if this question has been already answered, could anybody give me a link to it?

Thank you.

Gasha

[Steelo]

I've done something like this but it uses an expensive authoring suite from Adobe (Premiere, Audition, Encore)(about $1300 US).

What I've done is to record various music videos (from my DirecTivo to a digital camcorder) from MTV, captured them onto my PC and edited them in the timeline with Premiere. I then added several additional music tracks using Encore so that when I play the dvd, a menu gives me the choice of playing the original soundtrack of the videos or 1 of several additional tracks that I added while still playing the original video.

I could just record 2 hours of black still video (if I wanted more space for music) or run a slide show of photos and still have the choice of several audio tracks to play .

I wish I could tell you of a cheaper solution but this is the most versatile way of doing it.

[gasha]

Thank for the reply.
I was searching the web last night and I found perfect solution for $39.95. It is called Audio DVD Creator. It ripps the CDs and creates LPCM stream (CD quality - no compression) audio track of DVD-Video disk. It even creates a menu on the TV screen and displays the song titles in very similar way as DVD-Audio disks. You can add a background picture too. If you scan the CD covers, whenever it plays a song you can have coresponding cover on the TV screen. Perfect!

It has AC3 encoder, so if you chose this lossy compression (it still sounds good, it is used on most commercial DVD-Video disks), up to 16 hours of music can fit on a single layer DVD. With LPCM, the claim is arround 6 hours of CD quality music.

More info:
http://www.audio-dvd-creator.com/

Thnak you.

Gasha

PS
I am not affiliated with the company, I am just a happy customer
who found very nice solution to a problem.

[Socio]

The only way to make true DVD-Audio on a pc that I am aware of was to use a program called discWelder CHROME II (http://www.discwelder.com/) in addition you would need the Surcode MLP encoder (http://www.surcode.com/low/mlp/mlp.htm) but you would need real real deep pockets because discWelder CHROME II is $2995US and the Surcode MLP encoder is $2495US

So at least as far as I am aware of anyway, making true DVD-A's is still way way out of reach of the average Joe. Hopefully someday such things will make their way in to a much more affordable price range.

[gasha]

I was not thinking about DVD-Audio. I know it is not possible at this time. I was thinking about DVD Music disk or Audio DVD disk (not to be confused with DVD-AUDIO). I just wanted to put several CDs on a DVD disk and preserve CD quality (no AC3 compression). Audio DVD Creator does exactly what I want. I just put my Jesse Cook collection (6 CDs) on single DVD+R disk. It sounds the same as the original CDs and I do not need to keep changing disks in my Denon DVD-2200 player.
I do not have multitray player because they are not as good as high end single tray players.

Thank you anyway. This is very good forum.

Gasha