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seditious3

Jun 13 2008, 16:03

Hi - how do I burn the following to make a 5.1 channel DVD-audio disk?

Thanks!

Contents of audio_ts folder:
ATS_01_0.BUP
ATS_01_0.IFO
ATS_01_1.AOB
ATS_01_2.AOB
ATS_01_3.AOB
ATS_01_4.AOB
AUDIO_PP.IFO
AUDIO_SV.BUP
AUDIO_SV.IFO
AUDIO_SV.VOB
AUDIO_TS.BUP
AUDIO_TS.IFO
AUDIO_TS.VOB
DVDAUDIO.BUP
DVDAUDIO.MKB

BassBinDevil

Jun 13 2008, 18:32

QUOTE(seditious3 @ Jun 13 2008, 17:03)

Hi - how do I burn the following to make a 5.1 channel DVD-audio disk?

Thanks!

Contents of audio_ts folder:
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This should probably work:

Get ImgBurn, if you don't have it already. It's free, and very good.

Make a directory named whatever the disc should be called (say, MILLI_VANILLI), and move the audio_ts folder into it. (So when you look in the folder MILLI_VANILLI, you'll just see audio_ts, not all the files.)

Start up ImgBurn, and choose "Write Files/Folders To Disc". Click on the little "Browse For A Folder" button, (or select it from the File menu), and choose the MILLI_VANILLI folder. Select the burning speed and number of copies from the "Device" tab. Push the "calculator" button to see if it'll fit on a disc.

Make sure the "verify" box is checked.

Burn it.

(I've probably forgotten something, but this should get you pointed in the right direction...)

seditious3

Jun 13 2008, 18:49

Thanks - trying it now.

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Still not quite getting it...will try to figure it out later. Thanks, though!

Jun 16 2008, 06:22

That method will write your files to a disc, but as far as I know, ImgBurn will not properly sort the files so that the content is universally understood and navigable on every DVD-Audio player.

There is a good "How To" section at DVD audio Tools with additional info (quoted below). The files you listed were effectively produced in "Step 1"; ideally, someone could compile a patched version of mkisofs-win32 to consolidate "Step 2" and "Step 2.5."

ImgBurn could then be used to write the resultant disc image.

- M.

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Step 1 - create the AUDIO_TS directory

This step is performed by the dvda-author program. A simple invocation is as follows:

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dvda-author -o DVD -g *.wav

This will create a directory called DVD in the current directory containing a fully-authored AUDIO_TS directory and an empty VIDEO_TS directory. The DVD-Audio disk will contain all the .wav files in the current directory.

Step 2 - create the .iso disk image

Until DVD-Audio support is added to mkisofs, the .iso image must be created by passing a sort file to mkisofs. An example file is included in the dvd-author distribution (local copy).

If your DVD-Audio contents are in a directory called DVD in the current directory, then you can create the .iso image with the following command:

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mkisofs -o image.iso -sort sort.txt -udf DVD

NOTE: The sort.txt file must contain the full path of each file, including the top-level output directory (e.g. "DVD") passed to dvda-author via the -o option. If you don't specify an output directory of "DVD", you will need to edit the sort file.

mkisofs patches

Two mkisofs patches are available to date for dvda-author, which make it possible to run mkisofs without the -sort option:

Dave Chapman's initial patch against mkisofs (version 2.01)
Fab Nicol's new patch against a newer version of mkisofs (2.01.01a40).

Both versions perform the correct sorting of the files when the -dvd-audio parameter is specified. If you apply that patch before compiling cdrtools (it is not yet included in the official cdrtools), you can create the UDF image as follows:

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mkisofs -o image.iso -dvd-audio DVD

Applying patches

The patches to cdrecord source files should be applied as follows.
First cd into a directory that contains a subdirectory named cdrtools-2.01.01 (whichever package version is used), then enter the following command-line:

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$ patch -Nup3 < .diff file

A patched and pre-compiled (under Linux) cdrecord package is available here for version 2.01.01a40. To recompile it, first run 'smake clean' before running 'smake' again.
A shortlink to a patched mkisofs (against version 2.01.01a40) compiled under Linux is available here.

Hplex patch

A new patch has been made for Hplex, which wraps up both -dvd-audio and -dvd-video into one single -dvd-hybrid option switch. Either patch can be used against version 2.01 of cdrtools/mkisofs. Patches against more recent releases of mkisofs will be made soon.

Step 2.5 - OPTIONAL

For in car and other audio only players to play your disc you need to pass the -pp option to dvda-author when it runs. As of now the only way to do this is as follows:

Run the command

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isoinfo -i image.iso -l

and look for the start sector of the AUDIO_PP.IFO file. e.g.
---------- 0 0 0 131072 Mar 18 2005 [ 284 00] AUDIO_PP.IFO;1
Then re-run dvda-author, passing the sector of AUDIO_PP.IFO (in this case 284) using the -pp option:

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dvda-author -pp 284 -o DVD -g....

Complete step 2 again then proceed

Step 3 - burn the disk image

Any DVD recording software capable of burning .iso files can be used.

Under Linux, I have had good results with the growisofs option as follows:

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growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=image.iso

Or you can combine steps 2 and 3 as follows:

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growisofs -Z /dev/hdd -udf -sort sort.txt DVD/

An alternative is to use cdrecord from the cdrtools package (see above) as follows:

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(sudo) cdrecord -scanbus

will give the adequate dev value for the cd recorder (typically 2,0,0). Then type:

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(sudo) cdrecord dev=x,y,z /path/to/image.iso

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