Creating an Audio only DVD from several CD's

Tue Aug 10 23:55:55 UTC 2010

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:38:48AM +0200, linux at gabriel-striewe.de wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:08:31PM -0700, JD wrote:
> >   On 08/10/2010 03:33 PM, linux at gabriel-striewe.de wrote:
> > >>> So I managed to write a DVD-A on a DVD+RW with the following steps:
> > >>>
> > >>> dvda-author -o DVD -g *.wav
> > >>> mkisofs -o image.iso -sort sort.txt -udf DVD
> > >>> growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=image.iso
> > >>>
> > >>> I followed the howto on:
> > >>> http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/howto.shtml
> > >>>
> > >>> I do not have the mkisofs patch applied and used the sort file from
> > >>> that howto.
> > >>>
> > >>> And on my Denon DVD-1920, an explicit SACD and DVD-A player, it plays
> > >>> fine.
> > >>>
> > >>> However, I cannot mount the so-created DVD-A using mount -t udf
> > >>> /dev/sr0 /mnt/udf; it gives me an "unknown filesystem" error.
> > >>>
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>>
> > >>> Gabriel
> > >> Hi Gabriel,
> > >> Did you try to mount it with -t iso9660  instead of udf?
> > >>
> > > In fact, that worked. I had set the option "auto" in my /etc/fstab and
> > > mount without the "-t" option recognized the udf filesystem on the
> > > DVD-A and gave an "unknown filesystem error. The command "mount -t
> > > iso9660" as well as giving the filesystem type option iso9660 in the
> > > /etc/fstab-file works fine.
> > >
> > > How to play a DVD-A on the linux computer remains yet a mistery to me,
> > > however. Hope we'll find out soon.
> > >
> > > Gabriel
> > I received a reply from a developer of dvda-author:
> > I had remarked:
> >  > I have not been able to play the resulting DVD
> >  > with any of the Linux media players.
> >  > They just do not seem to recognize it.
> > And Fabrice replied:
> > On 08/07/2010 12:27 PM, fabrni at noos.fr wrote:
> > >
> > > hi
> > >
> > > the spec file is in the package, and discs do not play on media 
> > > players currently, this is normal behavior.
> > >
> > > Fab
> > >
> 
> Maybe a solution to this would be to put the wav files on a Video-DVD
> and leave the video directory empty. This would however only give you
> a sample rate of 48000 Hz instead of up to 192000 Hz as specified for
> a DVD-A. But then at least you could play the DVD on most any
> DVD-player. I am going to try that tomorrow.
> 
> Gabriel


>From what they say on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio
it seems that the analog output of my Denon DVD-A-Player wouldn't give
you a higher sample-rate than 48kHz anyway, because anything above
that would require encryption on the part of any other equipment,
which I don't have.

Gabriel