DVD with audio CD

[akhenat0n]

Is there a way to copy several audio cd to a dvd-r and play them in a dvd player (apex ad1500)? without mp3 encoding?

Why can't I select DVD Audio in nero wizard?

[Thorn]

DVD-audio isn't the same as CD audio. I belive it's lossless.

Aside from that, it depends on if the DVD player can recognise CD audio on a DVD disc. Many machines behave differently depending on the type of media inserted (i.e. they won't play a mini-dvd, which is a small DVD-spec image burned onto a CDR).

Maybe you could try a cd-audio compilation, but choose your dvd-burner and insert a dvd-r. It might give you an error, or it might limit you to CD-sized data. Or it might make a coaster

[Cornucopia]

akhenat0n:

If, by DVD-Audio, you actually mean following the DVD-Audio book spec, you are most likely out of luck. There are at present only a handful of programs (Sonic's, Minnetonka's) that author DVD-Audio. They are all commercial, expensive, and not even AFAIK cracked or downloadable. Nero does not yet support true DVD-Audio. Plus there will be just a handful of players that can truly play the DVD-Audio spec--NONE on computer (barring aforementioned authoring packages). And you would need a capable multichannel decoder/receiver/amp, too. This is still a "future" format.

If instead, you mean audio material authored in DVD-Video format, well you can leave the PCM audio (as a *.WAV file, probably) as is-but you must samplerate convert from 44.1kHz to 48kHz. Then author with black stills or something fancier (but low video bitrate). You could get quite alot on a DVD then (~180+ minutes). If you still want or need more room on the disc, you could just encode as *.MP2 or *.AC3 (see guides to the left). Check one of my past posts on this topic.
After authoring is done, make your disc VOB files. Then you would do your burning (in Nero if you want-that seems to be your preference) as DVD-Video or DVD (UDF/ISO) or if you've already made a disc image, write the image to disc.

Scott