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Re: Basic Questions About DVD-A Authoring

Posted by Neil Wilkes (P) on May 16, 2006 at 06:23:44

In Reply to: Basic Questions About DVD-A Authoring posted by Wegman on May 14, 2006 at 10:23:15:

DVD-A goes from 16/44.1 to 24/192 in stereo, and from 16/44.1 to 24/96 in 5.1 - however, for anything over 24/48 in 5.1 then you MUST use MLP lossless or your disc will be out of spec, and may well not play.
The Cirlinca app will allow you to write a 24/96 5.1 file without MLP, but the odds are high it will not play back properly, if at all on most players as the specs limit you to 9.6 Megabits/second, and 24/96 5.1 is over 13 Megabits/second.

There is nothing at all to stop you using CD audio quality on DVD-A - you will get a lot more on the disc.
The Cirlinca app would not be much use for this due to it's lack of menu creation.
discWelder Bronze will only give you a single group, which limits you to 99 tracks.
discWelder Steel gives you all 9 groups and a lot more in the way of menu creation.
Chrome is the flagship, and whilst it has it's problems is the best available unless you go for the MEI tool from Sonic.

WaveLab's DVD-A creation is at best a convoluted process, and at worst well out of spec. Just try copying one of your discs and see what happens! I/O error is almost guaranteed (with Version 5. Not tried DVD-A in version 6)

DVD-A is far from dead in the water either.
It is the ONLY High Rez format that is available to not only serious studios, but also semi pro & hobbyists. SACD was never a serious option due to the massive expense of making the discs.
As soon as all the BRD/HD DVD nonsense has gone the way of the dodo, and been left for just Hollywood type movies (Which is where it belongs, really) then DVD-A will come back stronger than ever before as it will be the ONLY high res disc based music format that is actually affordable.
Warners, EMI and many others are still well behind it too. Written properly, DVD-A/V discs will play in ALL dvd players too. Dead?
Nope. Not at all.

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