Video DVD with music

[calgarychinese]

Hi there
From the UK I buy some DVD singles, i.e. one or two videos plus one or two bonus tracks.

So when I insert the DVD into the player, the menu will show and let me choose to view the music video of the main song, or choose to click on one or two other songs that will play only the audio.

I don't even know what the technical terms for these discs are, DVD Audio? It's kinda like a hybrid.

Anyway, I have such album that I just downloaded. It's got 10 audio tracks on the first CD, and the album has a bonus DVD with some videos in it.

So, what I downloaded are 10 mp3 data files plus a VIDEO_TS folder which is about 2G big.

So how do I burn it so when I put it into a dvd player I can have a menu to choose the view the video or choose to listen to those 10 audio tracks?

I hope my questions make sense?
Thanks
CC

[jimmalenko]

I don't believe there's an easy way to do it, but the way I would do it is to create a seperate DVD-Video for the 10 audio tracks, and then use DVDRemake's "Merge DVDs" feature to put a top-level menu in that gives you the choice of your newly-created audio DVD or the bonus DVD, whilst retaining full functionality of menus etc.

Here's some guides for creating the audio DVD:

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=476#476
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=936&howtoselect=1;3#936
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=580&howtoselect=3;6#580
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=903&howtoselect=3;24#903
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=539&howtoselect=3;24#539

The basic concept is to encode the audio into DVD-compliant MPEG, using either a black screen or a winamp visualisation or any video footage you want, basically. You then create the DVD with menus as if it were a "stand-alone" DVD. Once finished and authored to your hard drive, then point DVDRemake to the two VIDEO_TS folders on your audio DVD and the bonus DVD and it will do the rest.

[calgarychinese]

Hi there, thanks a lot - it sounds comlicated, but what you described really sound like what you would normaly see on a dvd single. I'm going to try that out.

Thanks a lot!!
CC