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I am desparately trying to find possibilities for burning my hirez AIFFs (recorded vinyl in 24/96) to hirez DVDs on my Mac (OSX 10.4.8, iMac intel).I tried Diskwelder Bronze (trial version), it crashes due to a bug in the Interlock extension that's required to run the trial version.
I tried Toast 7, which allows so-called music DVDs. These, however, treat the hirez tracks as Video soundtracks (located in the Video_TS folder) and it is utterly opaque to me what Toast's encoding process does with the files. Furthermore, Toast-burnt DVDs quite frequently have drop-outs even with very slow burning speed (e.g. speeds 1 and 2).
Does anyone know a solution to this problem of burning DVD-As? Is Apple's DVD-Studio Pro an alternative and can this be purchased as a stand-alone application?
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It seems like it would be a huge pain to burn a bunch of DVD's when you could pick up something like a Lavry DA10, a usb-spdif converter that handles 24/96 (which you probably already have), and then play your files directly from your hard drive.Since you already converted your vinyl, you must have some way to connect your system to your computer. Sounds like a 24/96 dac could solve a lot of problems for you.
Thanks Aaron. The point is that I have my desktop Mac in another room. I record via M-audio firewire 410 and my G4 Powerbook, but do not want any computer near my sound system when I'm listening. The desktop has an Airport connection to the music system, but that only transports 16/44.1. Hence, the only way to get 24/96 into my player is via DVD-A oder music DVD (-Video) (Toast's version of hirez). In the meantime I have managed to produce some decent sounding DVD-As using DVD-Audiofile application. Great application.
Thanks for sharing the information about the DVD-Audiofile application. My DAC (Hagerman Chime) is 16/44.1 only, but I have a friend with a Lavry DA10, and I'm tempted to try out some 24/96 with it.Perhaps soon 802.11n will allow us to stream higher resolution audio. I've read that upsampling via software/computer is better than upsampling via hardware. It might be interesting to upsample some 16/44.1 to 24/96 or 24/192, then burn the discs with DVD-Audiofile, and compare them to the original 16/44.1. I have a friend with an Altmann Attraction who swears by upsampling w/Foobar and sending it to the DAC from his laptop. My experience with upsampling has been less than convincing, but this would be an interesting comparison.
-Aaron.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28674Haven't tried it but looks like it takes FLAC files and creates an
ISO file to burn a DVD-A.
Searching along I also found DVD-Audiofile (v 073) as well as DVD-Author. According to the installation procedure DVD-Author sounded like too much Unix fiddling for my taste and understanding so I tried DVD-Audiofile. It does not run on Intel Macs, though, but on my G4 Powerbook and OS 10.4.7 I could make it go ahead (it's a JAVA based application).Even though DVD-Audiofile says it will work with FLAC and WAV files, the ISO image resulting from WAV files look very strange (they are much smaller than they should be according to the amount of data that are supposed to be on it).
So I tried FLAC (compression 0) and, voilá, there was an ISO image in the right size with an empty VIDEO_TS folder and a correctly sized AUDIO_TS folder containing the right AOB. This looks very much like the image to burn to a DVD-Audio via DiskUtility. I'll do this tomorrow, check it on my DVD player and keep you informed.
I think I read that there was an issue with wav files with 24bits.
"Even though DVD-Audiofile says it will work with FLAC and WAV files, the ISO image resulting from WAV files look very strange (they are much smaller than they should be according to the amount of data that are supposed to be on it)."You are right. That must be the observation I am repeating above. Therefore I used FLAC with zero compression.
There are no provisions to burn an DVD-A with DVD studio pro.
You can import 96/24 aif files and burn the the files to a video DVD
but you must also have a video image to play. I just burned a test
disk this way out of dvd studio pro and it works. The video file and
audio file do get multiplexed together this way don't think that it
resamples the audio but don't know that for sure. Its a good question
I'll keep looking myself.
That must be how the so called hi rez "DADs" (Digital Audio Discs) work. They display an image while the music plays. I've never understood why you can't just put hi-rez (or even just WAV/AIFF files) on a DVD and play it like a CD.. LAME!
You can
It still needs an image though, as the format is called, er, DVD-Video.
This means it is Video or graphically dominant, and all audio must be tied to a video stream.Not all players will output a 24/96 stereo track either.
Lots will decimate down to 48KHz, and even truncate down to 16 bits.
If it will help at all, until you get the situation ironed out, i will be happy... if you want to send a copy of the discs in .aiff form to me, i will make your dvd-a's on a one time 'free' basis. Just hit me on the email for more info. You will need to have your images and artwork in place.
Hi Ontrack2: Thanks a lot for the offer. Do you mean you are working on Mac also and are using the Chrome application? As much as I appreciate your offer for burning the stuff, there is the transport problem sending 4G of email attachments or up/downloading them as well as the DVD sending...Have you heard about the Unix-based "dvda-author-20050703" thing from Sourceforge?
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Have you heard about the Unix-based "dvda-author-20050703" thing from Sourceforge?I had heard about it but it seemed way too complicated for me to take time out to decipher. The Chrome II was 3K and easy to deal with. I considered it a modest investment for archiving since SACD (Sorry assed commie dictators) consortium requires you to send out to the pressing plants to use the format. I use a windows based machine running XP Pro. (home version should work fine as well)
No email I know of will deal with 4gigs. Last night I ran 9 gigs on my FTP and frankly..it is still uploading (13hrs later) The logical choice would be to snail mail the ISO images as aiff files (on DVD- or + R) and I can burn them from there. I haven't read the follow-ups but you may have an easier solution available to you. The beauty of me offering the service is I would also get a chance to hear some of your favorite music!
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