newbie: multiple music cd's on one dvd?

[supertoom]

is it possible to collect a couple of music cd's and put them all together on one dvd-audio? i want to play the dvd-audio on my dvd-video player. how do i do this and what software do i need?

[jbcandkc]

Please post what make and model your DVD player is so we can give you better info on what to do. DVD players vary in capabilities so it is important to know which model you have.

jbcandkc

[supertoom]

ok sorry about that....

it's a Pioneer DV-340.

[AntnyMD]

There are no consumer-level DVD-Audio authoring applications available for the Mac, as far as I know. However, you can make a DVD-Video with a still and audio only, and use DVD Studio Pro/A.Pack to make a disc that will play in your DVD player.

This is essentially what commercial authors do to guarantee a DVD-Audio disc will play in every DVD player.

[supertoom]

ok. is it a difficult process? using DVD studio pro. is there a guide aviable?

[jbcandkc]

First off, your dvd player won't play mp3, so that option is out.

You ask if you can make a "dvd-audio" disk. From your post, I assume you mean a dvd with audio on it as opposed to a DVD-Audio disk which is a new, high qualty format for music that has multiple channels. I don't know anything about the DV-340 but the price listed in the players section to the left is to low for it to play DVD-Audio format disks.

I would doubt that your player would play any sort of music off of a dvd unless it was created as a dvd (just like a movie).

DVD Studio Pro is a high end $500 program for creating DVDs (used to be $1000 until last month) so since you're a newbie, that probable isn't an option either. So I guess the only thing left is cd with 74min (or 80) per. Sorry.

jbcandkc

[supertoom]

but dvd studio pro (1.5) came with my computer, so that's no problem. so what i have to do is: make a dvd-video with just one still picture and all the audio in 48 khz PCM, is that correct? but is it hard to do with dvd studio?

[jbcandkc]

Sorry, DVD Studio Pro is out of my league (I wish my computer came with it) but I have one more piece of advice. If you have DVD SP, convert your audio to ac3, it will take up much less room than PCM and you will get a lot more music on that disk. Good luck.

jbcandkc

[AntnyMD]

The still would have to be encoded as an MPEG-2 file and I think it has to be 2 or more frames long, but I think Quicktime Pro with the MPEG-2 encoder that comes with DVDSP will do that for you.

[qshartle]

ok, use A pack and make ur audio files

then go to toast and create an audio ts folder and video ts

put all ur audio files in the vid ts folder

i tried it once and it worked


i have a pioneer dvd player also



use a DVDRW tho, so in case it doesnt work for ya




Q

[supertoom]

exactly how do i do that with a.pack? do i have to split the files in one left and one right channel file before i process them with a.pack?