How do I create a Digital Audio DVD?

[chrisf71]

I have a number of .dts files on my hard drive that I'd like to burn to a Digital Audio DVD in a format that my car stereo will recognize, and be able to play in 5.1 surround.

Any suggestions?

[MOVIEGEEK]

I am not aware of any car stereos that can play DVD Audio, if you have a DVD player there's a 50/50 chance of it playing DTS on a DVD Video.
I would convert the files to MP3, AAC or WMA and put them on a CD.
BTW: do you have a 5.1ch surround system in your car?

[jman98]

I am not aware of any car stereos that can play DVD Audio,

Such players are rare, but they do exist. One of my friends has either and Acura or a Lexus. I don't remember which, but I think it's a Lexus. It came standard with a DVD player and the player says it supports DVD Audio.

[drjtech]

...format that my car stereo will recognize...

We need significantly more information on your car stereo.

-drjtech

[chrisf71]

Hi, there.

I got an Acura TL Tech. It's got ten speakers in 5.1 surround. I'm not sure who makes them for Acura, unfortunately. It definitely supports DVD Audio; they gave me a sample Audio DVD with the car, and it sounds AMAZING.

[MOVIEGEEK]

You could use DVDLab Pro to make a DVD Video:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic287574.html

DVD Audio software such as DiscWelder requires PCM files so you will have to convert.

You might want to use MediaInfo to check the properties of the DTS files first.

[Alex_ander]

That manual is for older DLP versions. Modern DLP has an 'audio-only title' option and ability to use individual still mpeg picture for each chapter. The process is the same as for making video DVDs.

[El Heggunte]

You can convert your DTSs to uncompressed WAVs, and then
author an actual DVD-A disc with dvda-author and a patched version of mkisofs:

http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/

HTH.

P.S.: Some pages of that site are outdated ---
--- the latest versions of dvda-author do support multichannel audio.

[chrisf71]

Thanks for all the input.

Will I lose any sound quality by converting the .dts files to another format before burning the audio dvd?

[lordsmurf]

uncompressed WAVs

Will I lose any sound quality by converting the .dts files to another format before burning the audio dvd?

No. Not if it's an uncompressed format.

[AlanHK]

That manual is for older DLP versions. Modern DLP has an 'audio-only title' option and ability to use individual still mpeg picture for each chapter. The process is the same as for making video DVDs.

I don't use DLP, but this sounds like it's not really "DVD audio" but a normal video DVD (a slideshow) -- it will consist of VOB files in the VIDEO_TS folder.
GfD has a similar option, called "audio titlesets".

See http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ as mentioned earlier for details of true "DVD audio" format.
This will contain files in the AUDIO_TS folder.

This may be important if the player can play DVD audio, but not video.