How to create an audio VCD on a DVD?
Is there any way to do this on a DVD-R?
I just got a burner, and it would be cool to have a vast collection of music always accessible. It might even be worth getting a cheap DVD player to dedicate to music! 8O I've heard it before, I'm not sure how to put MPEG-1 stuff on a DVD. I have Pinnacle Studio 8, NeoDVD and Nero (as well as the free TMPGEnc, of course). I don't see an option that would seem to make that possible... Anyone else have success? |
Hi BoxOfSnoo,
For DVD, encode an MPEG-1 video track CBR at 10Kbps (yes, TEN Kilobits per second, just to keep a very low stream instead of zero) at 352x240 (no video selected), and encode your audio at 224Kbps or higher at 48Khz. Or AC3 if you can :!: That will give you many MANY hours of music on a single DVD ;) Look here at the DVD specs, so you can get an idea of what you can do: http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.4 Edit: Correction, encode MPEG-2 with 3:2 pulldown, because if you encode MPEG-1 you must encode 29.97fps and you'll loose space. So encode MPEG-2 at 23.976 with the 3:2 flag enabled. Do the math, and figure how many hours of music you can get in a DVD with audio encoded at 384Kbps (use Joint-stereo, BTW) :mrgreen: -kwag |
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-kwag |
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Or you could use the video for something other than a blank screen. Maybe a time display, or show a lyrics page (a scanner would be really useful, just grab the liner notes). A nifty idea I've wanted to try for a while (that may have been posted on this forum a while back) would be to capture visualization from Winamp somehow and put it on disc. But then you'd have to sacrifice a bit of audio space to store it (which shouldn't be much of a problem on DVD). |
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~384,000Kbps / 8 = ~48,000 bytes per second. A DVD has a formatted capacity of ~4,300,000,000 bytes. So 4,300,000,00 / 48,000 = 89,583.33 seconds or 24.848 hours of music :) -kwag |
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Since MPEG audio is "optional" (at least here in NTSC-land if I'm reading the FAQ properly), I figured LPCM would be the best way to get it to work on all players and still get several hours on a disc (4-5 CDs worth, at least). But in reality, I've never seen a player that doesn't do MPEG audio, so I'd probably use it and get 24 hours like you said :-) |
I would go with 384Kbps audio, because frankly, at that bitrate there is no audible difference (to the human ear) compared to uncompressed audio :)
And 24 hours of music on a single DVD(+-)R is sweeeeeet :lol: -kwag |
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