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.
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?
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 ....... :)
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.
Thanks for all your help guys. Looks like it's going to be a pile of CDs then.