Can you send me the modified BAT file pr post instructions on how to mod it?

Thanks!!

 

Hey guys:

I modified the .bat myself to include two drives. I think I only changed the first pass (the per song mods) wav's to drive d:, but its a lot faster. Some how I need to change the second part of each pass where it counts by % to a diff drive. Any help?

Speed difference is INCREDIBLE!!

 

Yes, the speed difference in INCREDIBLE and I retract my statements earlier about speed being overrated
I plan to release a new version this week that will have 2 drive support. Here is a list of the changes

1. Automatic "sector" determination. No more having to enter a sector #. (Still does 2 passes but doesn't stop in the middle)
2. Two drive support (fully automated 2 drive support, still can work on single drive machines. )
3. Easier to follow code in scripts (for those that look)

schrady, Be careful. I did encounter problems at first with the the 2 disk version of image creation (where it counts by %) and created a few bad disks until I got it right. But I eventually got it. If you see crazy hi sector values (like in the thousands) then don't burn them. The mkisofs.exe file seems to be very picky about where it is run from in relation to the DVD directory.

So please be patient. I just need need a few more days to button things up but I think you will be pleased.

 

Quick question, will the Navi screen allow you to select a specific track, or do you have to cycle through each track one-by-one when you are playing these new DVD-A discs?

 

I got the code and documents done tonight. The changes really make it a lot more friendly.

Get it at http://home.comcast.net/~adobeman/DVDA/

Please let me know how things go.

 

Very very nice. one DVD, 95 songs, 7 hours of music!! Luckily I keep all my CDs in WAV form on a dedicated 300G external drive so no extra ripping was required. I was looking around to see if it's possible to maintain the title/performer/album information, anyone have any info on how that works and if it can be done here?

 

Adobeman,

WOW!!! This thread should be stickied!!!
I did everything you said to do and and it came out great.
Thanks for the great information and all the replies to the questions.

I have something to contribute as well.
To Burn I used Nero 6 Ultra Edition. To get the ISO Image on the DVD, you have to goto Nero Burning ROM. Once that window pops up, make sure you choose DVD on the Upper Right under "New Compilation". Then Close that window.
Now your left with 1 window with toolbars on top. Choose RECORDER then choose "BURN IMAGE" and choose the folder where the ISO file is. (If you followed Adobeman's steps, it should be in C:/DVDA/Image.)
Now you're Good to Go.

I tried the option that Nero 6 Ultra gave to burn via DVD-ISO and Audio but it did not work. So I hope the above info helps.

I do have one question for Adobeman......
How do you write all the titles of the songs on the DVD?? or Where do keep all the titles of the songs for that DVD-A you just made??

Once again, THANKS!!!!

-Mike~~

 

ADOBEMAN:

U THE MAN. 22 minutes start to finish!!!
Unreally fast!!

Thanks again!!!

 

SHRXTC - Glad that you brought this up.
DO NOT USE STICK ON LABELS ON YOUR DISKS

1. They can throw the discs off balance which can cause skipping
2. They cab come unstuck in the heat of the car and end up stuck in the car's player. (That's gonna cost money to have fixed)

If I have done regular CDs, I go to the CDDB (gracenote.com) and look up the disk in the db. Then I copy/paste the list of songs off of the screen into another program. A royal PITA so I stopped doing it.

So for now I pretty much write the titles of the CDs on the disks witha Sharpie pen. If I write small I can get all 6 to 8 CD titles on there.

I have started using CDex to rip. It is integrated with the CDDB so I might cook up a way to use it to generate labels. For example if the songs are all named like "Track No - Song Name" (e.g. 01-Smoke on the Water) I guess I could write a script to itterate through all the wavs and make a list. It is pretty easy to get CDex to name file just about any way. It is very powerfull. Printing the list would be up to you. Small fonts needed !

 

Thanks for the great procedure to make DVD-A's . I was about to post to find out if anybody had figured it out.

Well, I made a DVD-A audio which plays in my computer through my DVD audio player (Creative MediaSource). Now the problem is that when I insert the DVD in my TL, it shows "DISC" blinking and spits out the DVD!!!

The media is a DVD+R from Maxwell. Could it be the media type?

Polar

 

It indeed could be the media. -Rs have been better for most people.

If it plays in your computer then that probably means the image was good. The only time I had a the "DISC" message (and it still played on the computer) was when I got a starting sector wrong. It is most critical for when the disk is put in an audio-only player, like the TL's. At the end of the process there is a part that says to check that the sector the program used is what shows up on the screen. Did you happen to verify it? It is usually in the 280 area, give or take.

If that all checked out then I am thinking media could be your issue.

 

I tried a couple brands of +R that failed. Then I swtiched to -R and have had 100% success.

 

I have been lucky with both -R and +R. I guess it is a combination of media, burner, and your TL.

Isn't this software great!!! Great job Adobeman!!!

This post needs to be a sticky!!!

 

Generally speaking, Memorex stink. Switched from them to Taiyo Yuden (about 40 cents a disk on the net) and have had no problems since. Used Taiyo Yuden +R to burn the DVD Audio. Also used book type of DVD-ROM with my NEC burner so that may have helped. See the following for a discussion on media types, any Memorex I've gotten have the CMC ID.

http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm

 

argg
sorry... i try to make the dvd A image using the program
and it got stuck on the 1st pass?



can any one tell me what i did wrong?

i did zip the file to the right folder .. i think ..


thx !

o BTW i am new to here :p just got my TL 4 days ago :p

 

What did you use to create your wav files? The sample rate (44100) bits (16) and channels (2) look good but the length values with minus (-) signs are a bit odd. Generally the tracks don't have any negatives. Are they really long tracks? Have you verified they play OK on other tools? Even the lengths without the minus side look on the long side. For example the 41949277 length song (Track54) would be close to 16 minute by my calcs. The line that references the raw PCM data looks OK having a minus sign.

Also, where it says INFO: Processing C:\DVDA\WAVs\CD_GRP1\... is normal and can take some time (2 to 10 seconds) depending on the size of the file and the speed of your machine. It will print one of those lines for each file in your disc.

Lastly watch the sort of your files. Use leading zeros for tracks under 10. See your screen shot.

 

thx for the reply

the song i rip down from CD is about 5-6 mins long for each track.. so is not that long

ok .. so i try taking all the negtive songs out
and still won't work ! just stuck on C:\DVDA\WAVs\CD_GRP1\... and not loading

maybe is the program i use to make the wav files.... coz i used the HP music box thingy that come with the computer to rip the files ...

sigh ! anyway ! thx for the reply ! HAHA wish me luck to get it work :p

 

Adobeman, thanks for your work! Scripts worked flawlessly and instructions are clear.
I noticed that disc capacity is no 4,700,000,000 bytes, this number probably includes a number of bytes used for the filesystem or other internal needs. I built a first IS) with about 4,680... bytes of songs, and the image turned out too large. Nero refused to write overburn, Deepburner produced a coaster. Made another image from 4,560... bytes- worked fine.
I placed files into different groups- it allowed to avoid the 99 track limit, but it turned out that contrary to earier reports, TLs stereo doesn't switch between the groups automatically. When it reaches the end of the group, it is switching to a next disc. May be this is a model year variation- my TL was built only 2 weeks ago

 

Advise to those making multi album compilations fro the same artist:
Use a CDDB compatible ripper application and save tracks with names in a format of
Artist Year Album TrackNo Track.wav.
This information is filled up by the ripper software. You will end up with a list of all albums sorted chronologically and songs within the albums in their original order.
My favorite ripper is EAC (Exact Audio Copy) http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ This free application supports Secure Rip Mode, which is slower, but very accurate.

 

Nice tip. I was thinking of doing a similar thing using CDEx since it has CDDB integration and very flexible naming as well.
Thanks for the input.

About the 4,700,000,000 that is an area of much confusion (and even some class action law suits). It all has to do with bytes vs. Kbytes vs Mbytes. True a DVD holds 4,700,000,000 bytes but that is only 4.3Gbytes since you use 4,700,000,000/1024^3 to get Gigs. Nonetheless your right about extra space being taken up for the file system and stuff

About groups, I've always preferred one group just because of the condition you mention. I even recommend using just one group my procedures.

 

I think that the size confusion happens because the ISO image made out of 4,700,000,000 bytes of songs will be larger than 4,700,000,000 bytes. In my case, the size of WAVs directory is 4,568,277,854 bytes, but the ISO is 4,679,041,024 bytes.

 

Can anyone help?
I get a windows error after trying first track.
this is what it looks like




Size of raw PCM data: -2048196352 bytes (0MB)

INFO: Processing C:\DVDA\WAVs\CD_GRP1\Pimsleur - Spanish I - Lesson 01.wav
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 4248
Path table size(bytes): 42
Max brk space used 3000
424 extents written (0 MB)

Directory listing of /
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 17 2005 [ 270 02] .
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 17 2005 [ 270 02] ..
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 17 2005 [ 271 02] AUDIO_TS
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 17 2005 [ 272 02] VIDEO_TS

Directory listing of /AUDIO_TS/
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 17 2005 [ 271 02] .
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 17 2005 [ 270 02] ..
---------- 0 0 0 0 Aug 17 2005 [ 273 00] ATS_01_1.AOB;
1

Directory listing of /VIDEO_TS/
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 17 2005 [ 272 02] .
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 17 2005 [ 270 02] ..
secstart is
********SECOND PASS *************
********************************
dvda-author v0.1-cvs - Copyright (C) 2005 Dave Chapman
Latest version available from http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

INFO: Using starting sector of 0
ERR: Error parsing command-line parameters
mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - DVD
************************************************** **********************
* *
* ALL DONE *
* *
************************************************** **********************
ECHO is off.
Your ISO image is complete.
Location = C:\DVDA\IMAGE\DVDA.iso
Burn with a program that can burn DVD ISO files
ECHO is off.
NOTE:Starting Sector used was
ECHO is off.
A listing of the isoinfo will follow.
Verify sector start prior to burn.
ECHO is off.
Note the start sector of the AUDIO_PP.IFO
Example: "[ 282 00] AUDIO_PP.IFO" is a starting sector of 282.
ECHO is off.
************************************************** **********************
Press any key to continue . . .

 

Brianmski,
Sorry about so many questions...

What "windows error" are you getting ? It isn't in your post.
What operating system are you using?
Is the wav file 16Bit, 44.1KHz 2Channel and how big is it?
How much free disk space do you have ?

The "windows error" is definitely causing the dvda-author program to terminate prematurely. Everything goes downhill after that.

 

I was getting the typical "windows received an error and will be closing the program, any unsaved data will be lost..."I could get the tech details from it if you like.

I ripped the file with cdex, it is 16 bit, 2 channel, not sure what frequency
running on XP home 2002...
the 10 tracks totalled about 2.03GB

 

If you ripped it with CDex then it is probably 44.1Khz. XP home should be fine. You probably have enough free space on your HDD as well. For 2G you would need about another 4 to 5G free. (room for the structure and image).

If you can grab the technical details it would be interesting. Even with them I'm not sure what I could do. Usually dvda-author will spit out an error message if it doesn't like the wav files. The error you are getting points more to a unique problem with your setup. Out of curiosity, any other machines you can try it on ?

 

yeah, I have plenty of HD space. I'll get the tech details on here in 4-5 hours. I think it was pretty long though. want it all or just a certain part?
I'll also try my bro's laptop this weekend if I can. I'll try some different files too, but I dont think that is the problem do you?

 

It could be the file. Trying it on another machine will probably yield some good info.
Try it with the same file and with some different files. If it works either way on the other machine then your computer has a unique issue...

 

Hey ADOBEMAN

Well I just got my 05' TL this past MOnday, traded in my 2000 TL. This seems awsome my questions are:

1: Has anyone figured out how to take this on to the 5.1 level? I am interested in doing this but my main interest is in being able to tap into the 5.1 capablity of the stereo, not just having alot of songs on one disc (which is great though)

2: When/If conversation from MP3 to the 5.1 is accomplished, can this feature be used if all the factory speakers are replaced excpet for the center channel?

THanks for the help, I'm am pretty clueless with this type of stuff. I asked the 2nd question cause I will be replacing the 4 speakers (Front LFT, RT, Rear LFT, RT and tweets, with aftermrkt along with the additions of my subs).

THanks again

 

While some of the DVDA multi-channel disks sound better from a technical point of view, DTS 5.1 CD sound is pretty good but save 1 caveat, they ocassionally pop and seem to loose encoding for a brief time, some disks do and some don't. Our cars play the DTS 5.1 CDs. Amongst my collection I have some Sting and REM disks on DTS which are really great. Also they are downloadable and without any fussing to create disks. Creating a disk of your own music is another story. A good starting point to try out.

 

Can anyone help? First of all, this program sounds like it works great, thanks Adobeman! However, I ran into a problem right before the second pass.

Running XP Pro
C: Drive has 21 Gb free
F: Drive has 7.5 Gb free
Converting 3.21 Gb of wav files in 5 groups at 16 bit, 44.1 Khz, 2 ch

After the first pass, I get this error message:



Any thoughts on why? It's getting to the "All Done" screen saying the ISO image is complete but there is not iso file in the IMAGE folder.

 

I'm guessing you are using the two drive method since you have listed the C: and F: drives. So check this:

1. check the edit you did to the setenv.bat file. In the section where it talks about the second HDD make sure it says "set TD=F:" (without the double quotes). There should be no spaces, and no back slash.
2. Make sure you have an F:\_DVDA_Temp directory and that the file mkisofs.exe is in it. (there will be other files there to, the same files as in c:\dvda\code)

Since it appears that the dvda-author program has worked (the part that encodes each wav file) and you are using the 2 HDD method I think that this will highlight some problems. If it doesn't then try using the one drive method, as in set TD=C:, to see if that works (even though it will be slower).

As for the "All Done" screen even though the errors that's "my bad" for not doing as good an error check as I should have. Using these kind of batch scripts really isn't great for error trapping. If I do another rev to this I will put in a check to make sure the sector isn't zero at the end of the first pass. That indicates an error condition.

PM me if you wish.

 

a. Set TD=F: is correct in the SetEnv.bat file

b. I checked the F:\_DVDA_Temp directory and it is completely empty. There are no files except while its doing the first pass. So its missing all the CODE files and the mkisofs.exe file.

 

well, It worked perfectly with different (standard music) files. I am wondering if the file size may have been the problem. do you know if a wave file of 40-45MB would make it crap out?

 

to MovedByGrooves:
It sounds like the proper files did not get copied to the temp directory when you set up 2 HHD. It is supposed to happen automatically the first time you run.

Delete the F:\_DVDA_Temp directory and run the makedvda.bat file again. You should get a "First time set up" message and when you press enter it should copy all the files from c:\dvda\code to F:\_DVDA_Temp. If that still doesn't work (not sure why it wouldn't) then just do "copy c:\dvda\code\*.* f:\_DVDA_Temp" at a command prompt.

to brianmski:
40 to50 Mb is typical for an average song and isn't a problem. I'm not sure what the longest song I have done is but I'm guessing it is about 10 minutes. That would be 10 * 10.6Mb/minute = 106Mb. No problems with it. Maybe the file that gave you problems had some kind of error in it.

 

Hey guys,

I just thought I'd throw my 2-cents into the pond here.

I burned 3 DVD+R coasters trying this method using Nero 6 and Deepburner on
Memorex 16x DVD+R (single layer) Media (MCC...004 from Videohelp.com)
I tried burning at 16x and 6x. Neither worked.

So I went out and bought some TDK 8x DVD-R (single layer) Media (TTG02... from VideoHelp.com)
I used deepburner this time at 6x (max free speed I believe) and it worked the first time!

So if you're just starting, you might have the best luck with DVD-R media (as previously suggested in this thread).

I used a NEC-3520AW burner in a '04 TL with Navi with a 20K Vin in case that matters for some people.


Special thanks to Adobeman for making the pretty green button that we can all push to enjoy our TL's more!

And thanks to Dave Chapman, TerminaderTL, and markjrenna for all the work they've done as well!

 

Has anyone used any -RW media?
If so, which manufacturer?

 

Thanks Mike. I just burned my first dvd+r and its working. The only problem is, some of the songs get cut off, but it might have been my burning program or the dvds. I'll try a -R and deepburner since that seems to do the trick for others.

 

Over the weekend I ordered a DVD burner (Lite-On SOHW - 1693S) and a spindle of 25 discs (Memorex 16x DVD-R). Yesterday UPS delivered and last night I had to try this program out. I didn't keep track of time, but it was probably between 30-45 minutes (using 1 hard drive). I burned the iso with Nero, and the DVD didn't play in my computer (tried powerdvd) nor in a set top box dvd player around the house. But it did play in my 2005 TL!

The only error that I saw when running the program was something similar to:
"'c:\dvdaudio' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file" (c:\dvdaudio is the path I extracted the ZIP of the program to -- and the path I set in setenv.bat)

 

This was a very simple process. Since I already had my MP3's converted to WAV.
Minus the conversion, this app was done before Nero could erase the info previously on my DVD.

Thanks to everyone involved.

I had the same issue as AdamNJ, the dics didn't play in Windows Media Player or in PowerDVD. It appeared to have the proper file structure and PowerDVD recognized that it "could" play the files, but didn't.

But it works in the car!!!!!

I used Nero Express 6 that came with my Sony DVD burner DRU-720L.
And was also able to use Sony DVD-RW's. I will try my TEAC DVD-RW's next.

 

That's not a normal error, I am surprised anything worked after that. Try extracting to C:\. That should give you a C:\DVDA directory automatically with everything you need.


Those are DVD-V players only. WinDVD6 or later will play DVD-A. Your software/player need to specifically say it plays DVD-Audio

At any rate, glad to hear you can play them in the car.