DVD-Audio example

[cwdjrxyz]

A few stand alone DVD players and a very few player programs on a
computer will play the DVD-Audio standard which allows up to 6 channels
and higher bit rates and frequency than the CD standard. You can use it
at normal CD standards to put about 6 or 7 CDs on one DVD disc if you
have an encoder and burner for DVD-Audio. Forget ripping commercial
DVD-Audio discs, because they use a form of encryption that is far more
secure than the DVD standard encryption. I have been using the
Minnetonka discWelder Bronze program to compile DVD-Audio from high
resolution wav files and burn to DVD.

On a DVD you have .VOB files that run up to about 1 GB each and contain
the video. You also have other types of files for housekeeping chores
on the DVD. A DVD-Audio disc is much the same, except you have .AOB
files that contain the music.

I have a DVD-Audio file on my site that can be downloaded. Before
downloading, make certain you have a player that will play DVD-Audio.
If it does, this would be mentioned as a feature in sales literature,
as it is uncommon. The Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 Deluxe version(NOT the
standard version) will play DVD-Audio. There may be 1 or 2 other
players that will, but I have not researched this recently. You may
download the file at
http://www.cwdjr.info/DVDaudio/AUDIO_TS/ATS_01_1.AOB . This is a short
clip of music about 4 minutes long. AOB files are huge, and this short
clip is about 136 MB, so you likely will not want to download unless
you have a high broadband connection. Once you have the AOB file, right
click and select open with. Navigate to the player that will play
DVD-Audio and select it. You may have to use the select from a list
option to get to the player .exe file to open it.

In case you are bold and want to see what a player that does not
specify it will play DVD-Audio will do, first turn your volume way
down. The WMP 11 does not know the .AOB extension, but it will ask if
you want to try to play anyway. If you select to play, it thinks it can
and plays you back very annoying digital noise at full volume. The Real
player tries to open, but it will not play. The Nero Showtime program
crashed and hung up. One other player would not open at all. Another
player routed you to my player that would play DVD-Audio. There is no
telling what some other player might do.

If you want to see the complete set of files that would be burned to a
DVD-Audio disc, go to http://www.cwdjr.info/DVDaudio/AUDIO_TS/ for a
listing.

 

[theplectrum]

A few stand alone DVD players and a very few player programs on a
computer will play the DVD-Audio standard which allows up to 6 channels
and higher bit rates and frequency than the CD standard. You can use it
at normal CD standards to put about 6 or 7 CDs on one DVD disc if you
have an encoder and burner for DVD-Audio. Forget ripping commercial
DVD-Audio discs, because they use a form of encryption that is far more
secure than the DVD standard encryption. I have been using the
Minnetonka discWelder Bronze program to compile DVD-Audio from high
resolution wav files and burn to DVD.

On a DVD you have .VOB files that run up to about 1 GB each and contain
the video. You also have other types of files for housekeeping chores
on the DVD. A DVD-Audio disc is much the same, except you have .AOB
files that contain the music.

I have a DVD-Audio file on my site that can be downloaded. Before
downloading, make certain you have a player that will play DVD-Audio.
If it does, this would be mentioned as a feature in sales literature,
as it is uncommon. The Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 Deluxe version(NOT the
standard version) will play DVD-Audio. There may be 1 or 2 other
players that will, but I have not researched this recently. You may
download the file at
http://www.cwdjr.info/DVDaudio/AUDIO_TS/ATS_01_1.AOB . This is a short
clip of music about 4 minutes long. AOB files are huge, and this short
clip is about 136 MB, so you likely will not want to download unless
you have a high broadband connection. Once you have the AOB file, right
click and select open with. Navigate to the player that will play
DVD-Audio and select it. You may have to use the select from a list
option to get to the player .exe file to open it.

In case you are bold and want to see what a player that does not
specify it will play DVD-Audio will do, first turn your volume way
down. The WMP 11 does not know the .AOB extension, but it will ask if
you want to try to play anyway. If you select to play, it thinks it can
and plays you back very annoying digital noise at full volume. The Real
player tries to open, but it will not play. The Nero Showtime program
crashed and hung up. One other player would not open at all. Another
player routed you to my player that would play DVD-Audio. There is no
telling what some other player might do.

If you want to see the complete set of files that would be burned to a
DVD-Audio disc, go to http://www.cwdjr.info/DVDaudio/AUDIO_TS/ for a
listing.

FYI, you can record from a DVD Audio. If you have the option "What U Hear'
on your mixer, select it, start the software (Audacity, Goldwave etc) and
off you go .

Cheers,
Jerry

 

[cwdjrxyz]

FYI, you can record from a DVD Audio. If you have the option "What U Hear'
on your mixer, select it, start the software (Audacity, Goldwave etc) and
off you go .

Yes you can record a wav file using what you hear, and if you burn this
to CD you have just an ordinary CD format recording - not a DVD-Audio
format. Also, unless you can record as a 6-track wav you will only get
a stereo mix down for the many 6 track DVD-Audios out there. If you
have a DVD-Audio program to encode and burn to DVD such as the
mentioned discWelder Bronze, you could input the degraded wave you
captured, but then you do not have a clone of the original DVD-Audio.
You likely could also play the DVD-Audio disc on a capable external DVD
player and feed into the line inputs of your sound card and capture a
wav version.

Now if you want to record in the true DVD-Audio format, you can insert
it into a drive and copy all of the individual files to the HD. Works
well for my own non-protected discs. But then when I use a commercial
protected disc, the files, when you can transfer to the HD at all, just
give high level digital noise on attempts to playback because of the
protection.

Several commercial DVD-Audio discs are actually dual format discs that
include both a DVD-Audio version and perhaps a 5.1 surround normal DVD
version. These will play on most DVD players or computer drives that
do not support DVD-Audio, using the 5.1 surround version instead. I do
not have equipment to compile and burn in dual format, because the
programs required costs several thousand dollars. But if you can not
play the DVD-Audio version, you might as well have bought the less
expensive CD version in the first place.