.wav files on a DVD

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tom hardwick
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Here's a problem I didn't expect to meet. A client has given me lots of audio cassettes that he wants put onto a couple of DVDs.

I play these into the pc and save them as .wav files. Of course I could burn them to CD no problem, but it'll take a small mountain of them to hold all the cassettes.

So I burnt them to DVD-RW as a test, but all my DVD players report 'unknown disc'. Why, when the DVD player will play a CD with the same files burnt?

I could of course MP3 the lot and make a DVD, but then the client said he'd rather have wave files for the best quality. What to do?

tom.

mooblie
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Sounds to me like players are getting too clever, and throw out "CD files" on a DVD - as you are doing, in the same way they throw out "DVD files" on a CD (i.e. what was sometimes known as a "miniDVD" - a short DVD, but burnt onto a blank CD for economy.)

I bet your PCs will play them OK, just not set-top players. Maybe that will be good enough for your friend?

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I don't think you can make a audio dvd from wav's , BUT , you might be able to make a dvd with lots of vcd resolution 'mpegs' with title only for video and audio at decent rate on a dvd-r.

You could get 6-8hours on a dvd that way.

( I cannot get a dvd to do what you want to either , i can create a disc , but nothing will play it. )

another way would be to play the audio files into a standalone dvd recorder , a track at a time ( tape at a time ) and try it that way.

we can talk about this at videoforum if you want ....... :)

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John Willett
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You would have to burn the DVDs as DVD-A - I think Wavelab 5 (Wavelab 6 in the shops within the next few weeks) can do this - but not every player can play DVD-A.

You could burn them as video audio with a still picture, so they will play on a DVD player, but I think the sound is compressed.

Wav files are pretty useless to the man in the street.

I would suggest they all go to however many CDs it takes as you can then properlt start ID them.

John
 
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tom hardwick
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Thanks for all your help guys. Looks like it's going to be a pile of CDs then.