Best Method of Compiling MP3 to DVDR

[Tekniques]

After searching far and wide for guides I could not find anything that really gave a clear cut method for doing this. Many posts in here touch on the subject in a round-about way but not directly.

I have many MP3's, most of which are DJ sets recorded live and as such go for an hour or more hence giving me 1 file of 70 to 80mb per DJ set. I want to put these all on a DVD-R and play them on a DVD Player.

From reading other posts I have learned that as well as coverting the audio to 48khz, a "dummy" video track must be created for each audio file so the authoring software will accept the .mpg file and menu's could then be created in Movie Factory or DVD Workshop. The idea is to make the "dummy" video track as small as possible meaning it can't be MPEG2 DVD compliant otherwise it will be huge and will defeat the purpose of putting over 35 hours worth of music on one DVD-R. I decided to combine methods from the SVCD to DVD-R guide and here's what I came up with :

1. Converted MP3's to wav.

2. Create or choose a bitmap of your choice to use as dummy video track

3. Using TMPGEnc encode the bitmap with each wav audio file (do this in batch mode if many audio files and leave overnight)

Video settings (as low as possible) : MPEG1 352x240 CBR 100kbps (PAL or NTSC)
Audio settings : MPEG Layer II (default) but change to 48khz !!!

4. The result is an .mpg file with MP2 audio at 48khz and a video track of poor quality (not that your going to watch this disc).

From a 60min wav file encoded with the bitmap, it came to around 120mb. We can estimate anywhere between 35 to 40 hours of music using these files, can be stored on a DVD-R.

5. Finally we need to fool the Authoring software into thinking the .mpg is DVD compliant so we re-patch the headers on the video track to 352x576 or some other DVD compliant resolution using DVDPatcher. We can then add all the .mpg to Movie Factory and create menu's for easy selection when you want to play the music on your DVD player.


My question to you guys is : is this a good way of doing this ? are there better ways ? what software to use ?

and the question of using MP2 48khz or encoding to AC3 using BeSweet (which kept giving me errors using the latest version of the GUI but was ok using the AC3Machine GUI).

Thanks.

[phinsman]

I would like to know if you came up with anything else...the idea interests me but I don't have any help to offer you unfortunately.

Dale

[tygrus2000]

Again Winoncd DVD Music album will do what your doing in a fraction of the time and with way less effort. I put nearly 50 albums (700 songs) on one.

[Tekniques]

Exactly what I was looking for Tygruss....thanks for the tip !!

PS. Scrap my method, takes too long !