MP3 audio only avi/mpeg-2

[drag2f2f]

I want to create a music dvd, I have a live performace video and want another menu with some music tracks to select and listen to. I was wanting to know how I could produce a blank or still frame video with MP3 audio for this purpose. This can either be mpeg-2 or avi, which I can then encode to mpeg-2. I'm guessing avi would be easier and probably would be done with virtualdub but I don't know how to do this.
Thanks, Anthony

[mats.hogberg]

Can't use mp3 for DVD. Reencode to AC3 (or MP2 or LPCM). Author as a regular video title with a still as image. I think there's a guide on how to author a "music DVD" with DVD-Lab somewhere here.

/Mats

[drag2f2f]

I know I can't have it as mp3 but I just wanted to get an idea of how to do it and I was going to convert the audio once I had the general idea.

[drag2f2f]

I might give DVD-Lab a go. How would I produce an avi with still picture/video. If I can get an avi I can try with DIKO using DVDStyler to get a reasonable result.

[mats.hogberg]

As I said, try to find the DVD-Lab guide. I'm pretty certain this is a task well beyond at least DIKO's capabilities. Also DVD Audio Creator is a good starting point for this kind of endevour.

/Mats

[drag2f2f]

DIKO is a very good program, its not one of these garbage programs that use transcoders, it uses a choice of great encoders.
I want to basically have the live performance as the main feature and have a seperate menu to select some tracks that I have taken from a cd. I was hoping I could just make this easy by creating a still image avi with ac3 or mp2 audio and using this in DIKO and then use DVDStyler to create a basic menu. All I want to know is how to use the audio file after I have converted to ac3 or mp2 and add it to a still image creating an avi where the image is shown throughout the song.

[mats.hogberg]

If you have the video part, use VirtualDub to multiplex it with audio.

/Mats

[drag2f2f]

How do I create a video that is a still image so that I can mux with the audio.

[mats.hogberg]

I gathered you already had figured that out. Never tried it, but for mpg I'd use TMPGEnc - pic as video source, audio as audio source. I would try VirtualDub for the same in AVI format.

/Mats