Hi all, I'm looking to ask anyone who has successfully burned a DVD-A disc on a mac and had it play in the TL.

I've looked into Toast and Jam, but they don't seem to be the right deal. I have DVD Studio Pro if that's the way to go, but I haven't even cracked that open yet.

Thanks,

-spack

 

i have dvd audio burner, not sure if it will work, i heard dvd lab pro will burn a dvd audio only track disc

discwelder is the one to get, you have to convert your music to .pcm format, i have adobe audition (formerly cool edit pro) so i can do that for full dvd hd sound. i'll probably wait to get discwelder just to see if anything else surfaces. from what i know dvd audio burner will make sort of a mp3 style disc that plays in dvd format, you can load a full dvd of mp3's on it, i'll check it out over the weekend

 

Sorry, I guess I wasn't too clear there... I'm looking specifically for a solution on the mac platform, not Windows. Thanks.

 

take this from a mac user -- even with virtual PC, discwelder was still a pain in the ass (didn't support my powerbook's burner). DVD-AUDIO is NOT a regular dvd, it's got a proprietary disc structure that cannot be created in any apple supported application. My advice -- use a friend's PC with wavelab or discwelder and create the disc on that.

 

Is it so much a proprietary disc structure as it is the licensing to put it in the 5.1 .AOB format ?

The disks look just like dvd file structures but the files are in the audio_ts dir rather than the video_ts dir and they are stored in .AOB files rather than .VOB files.

I thought it was all in the licensing that you had to buy the DiscWelder for so that it could make the .AOB format.

I may be wrong, but the disc/filesystem just didn't look that much different.

 

Toast/Jam and DVDSP wont do it, as far as I know.

I'd try Discwelder Bronze for mac. Its available now. I still have to buy a copy, but if you get it first let us know how it works.

Discwelder Bronze for Mac OS X

 

Thanks divxz! I'll look into that. I'll post back here with my findings.

 

Right, it is the licensing of their proprietary disc format (a regular dvd-video format would be able to play in our car-- however the dvd audio format has it's own structure.) That's why apple doesn't include tools to make it-- they don't want to cough up the money to support something that, unfortunately, has no real market.