Hey guys, I know there's been a ton of threads on this, but i have a pretty unique problem. I have a mac. I have diskwelder and wavelab and all of those programs running on a virtual pc application, but cannot burn them to dvd because it won't recognize my powerbooks' burner. Now I can convert the songs I want to ac3 manually, but i have no idea what the structure of a dvd-a disk really is. I have dvd studio pro 2 if it will help. I really need help here guys, any would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

You should try some "dvd burning" type of forum, most likely get more feedback/help there

 

I've been wondering about that too.. I have a powerbook.. The marketing on "Toast with Jam" from roxio says that it can burn audio to a dvd.. I dont know if that means it can make a disc that will work in our car or not.. let me know if you try it.

 

Okay guys i figured it out. I used virtual PC and wavelab to burn a image file that i transfered over to my mac and burned using toast 6. What apain in the ass, but it looks like it works fine. I recomend transfering your songs to WAV in itunes first.

 

You burned a DVD-A in Toast 6 and it worked in the TL? As far as I know, Toast 6 does not support DVD-A authoring. If you haven't tried the disc in the car I think you are going to find that it doesn't work. I think you are just burning audio to DVD.

 

No, i'm authoring the disk in windows (wavelab) and transfering the Audio_TS and video_TS files to mac to burn on toast. Toast doesn't care what it's burning, and will burn it correctly as long as the authoring structure is valid.

 

Well good luck. I hope it works. Let us know either way.

 

I work in professional video, and also use a mac. i have a dual G5. Its not my primary work, but from what i do know about DVDs, i dont think there is a consumer program that will allow you to mix the kind of DVD surround music out car features. The way those audio dvd's are made is by taking the original recordings, not only remastering them but also remixing them, assigning different recording tracks to different speakers.

even in logic, which is one of apples most powerful audio mixing programs, i think you are still confined to two channel stereo. i could be wrong though, but if not i would suggest going to best buy and picking out fleetwood mac or Britany spears, because that seems to be all they offer these days in DVD Audio.

 

The reason I'm created a DVD audio disk is to be able to fit 100 or so songs on a disk with cd quality sound, not to re-mix my music into 6 channel sound.

 

oh ok, i understand...in that case let me know how it goes.

 

http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toa...jhtml#DVDMusic

I still think this might work.

 

No, that's not going to work. A music DVD is not a DVD-Audio disc, it even says so at link you provided.

 

yeah, well I thought it might work anyway, since it encodes pcm audio to a dvd.
I do hate admitting i'm wrong, but, you are right. I tried it. Toast is still crap.
I will talk to our audio engineer and see what she says.

 

Come on now Toast is a great program, give 'em a break. DVD-Audio is a very specialized niché of the DVD spec and it isn't cost effective for them to add this feature; they'd never make their money back. Just the license for the MLP encoding algorithm is a killer, that is a big part of why DiscWelder costs so much (that and the fact that only a small number of people will be willing to pay for a DVD-A solution).

Right now, and likely forever, it will be DiscWelder or nothing (unless you want to go pro and then the cost of your TL will seem cheap next to the cost of the equipment needed to make commercial product!)

 

Q. Is this a DVD-Audio disc?


A. No. DVD-Audio discs require special DVD-Audio players. This is high quality audio, on a standard DVD, which plays in an ordinary DVD player

It won't work because the dvd drive in the acura will only play dvd-a. if it can't read the audio on a dvd video disk, this program will not work. (although i wish it did)