DVD Video with mp3 audio

[lgarmendia]

Although this is not the DVD standard, is it possible to author a DVD video with mp3 audio?

DVD-Lab only lets authoring 48 or 96 kHz mpeg layer 2 files (mp2), but is there any other program letting mpeg2video+mp3audio combinations?

I guess that as almost every standalone dvd player also supports mp3 files, the resulting dvd would be readable.

Is it possible? Thanks!

[yoda313]

Hello,

Nope - for dvd video the audio it accepts at the 48khz levels are:

AC3
PCM
MP2

That's all.

Kevin

[gibkho]

Hi,

When i de-multix .vob fiel using dvd-lab, i get 2 files. One in .mpv(video stream) format and another one in .mpa(audio stream) format. You said dvd can only accept 3 types of audio format, AC3, MP2 and PCM, then what is this .mpa file???

Thanx.

[TJohns]

A .MPA (MPeg Audio) file IS MP2 - don't confuse the file extension with the compression codec! WordPerfect used to create .DOC files, but they weren't the same as MS Word files by any means

Trev

[jimmalenko]

MPA is the same as mp2.

As for MP3 DVD authoring, I'm yet to see an authoring tool that allows this, as it makes a mockery of the DVD spec if it did.

A couple of things spring to mind:

You can create MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio when encoding an MPEG file (before authoring).

Not all players that play MP3 can play MP3 off DVD either.

If you were to get a player that plays raw MPEG, you just might be able to get it to play.