[vdr] AW: DVD and MPEG Audio

["Bläser, Lars" <LBlaeser@hofheim.de>]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Stephan Schreiber [mailto:stephan@sschreiber.de]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 25. Juli 2002 16:53
> An: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Betreff: [vdr] DVD and MPEG Audio
> 
> Recently I bought one of those DVD-RW drives, the Pioneer 104.
> My main working machine is a Windows PC, and it houses the 
> Pioneer, so I
> have access to DVD authoring software.
> Now, none of my home-made DVDs are working with the current 
> AIO patch (which
> is sad because I wanted to make DVDs from VDR recordings).
> As soon as the DVD is accessed, vdr exits and runvdr restarts.
> I was using ULead's DVD Workshop for authoring, and my 
> el-crappo Yamakawa
> eats'em without complaints.
> Basically all authoring tools below 1000 US Dollars have no 
> capability of
> authoring AC3 tracks. So, if you want to save some disk 
NO, i.e. SpruceUp handles AC3 audio, just name your ac3 file in the same was as your mpv file and inmort it (test.mpv and test.ac3)

> space, you have to
> use mpeg audio, as PCM is totally uncompressed. I suspect 
> this to be the
> problem.
> According to DVD specifications there must be at least one 
> PCM or AC3 track,
> but most stand-alone players don't complain if you present 
> them only mpeg
> audio.
realy, i´ve never heard that before (but also not read the specs, so it could be true)
i will try my english starwars dvd´s (recorded with vdr and authored with spruceup, mpeg audio) with the dvd playback of vdr (usualy i use my yammi780 for dvd´s)

> Over the weekend I had access to the Scenarist software and I 
> tried again,
> this time converting audio to AC3. Bingo, the DVD works 
> perfectly with vdr!
> But who has 16.900,-- Dollars to spend for a piece of badly designed
> software?
> So, am I right? And can it be fixed easily?
there are programms that convert ac3 to mpeg-audio, it should be possible to convert a stereo-mpeg-audio to ac3 2.0