How do I burn dvd-r disc with UNCOMPRESSED audio

asafb wrote on 3/17/2002, 9:45 AM
Okay, I have vv3 - I want to go to dvd using mainconcept, but I only want DVD Video stream. Then I want to place an UNCOMPRESSED WAVE file into my project, and then burn the DVD. I don't like the sound of the compressed mpeg2 audio! Can you do this? Is this possible, SoFo?

Don't tell me I need to get like a $1,000 dvd-authoring tool :(

thank you, ab

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/17/2002, 12:18 PM
What exactly don't you like about the MPEG audio stream? The default bitrate is 224Kbps, which should be just about indistinguishable from an uncompressed WAV file. I'm not sure you could tell the difference without comparing the waveforms on a monitor.
asafb wrote on 3/17/2002, 1:07 PM
Chienworks: You *can* hear the difference. I recorded some vocals, and you can hear it especially when they sing up high. Besides, isn't all DVD-Videos, the ones that you see from Hollywood, don't they use PCM uncompressed WAV sound? I mean why not - after all, a DVD disc should have the best audio quality, why should you have to compromise - i mean it's only another half a gig ~~ 650MB for one hour right?

ab
falz wrote on 3/17/2002, 2:50 PM
You didn't say, but I'm assuming you're trying to write a DVD which will play in a standard DVD player, correct? I may be wrong here, but isn't the entire nature of DVD compression? I don't think you have a choice in the matter.
Lody wrote on 3/17/2002, 3:50 PM
came bundled with my Pioneer DVR-A03 burner. It can handle various audio sources, but will eventually always re-encode to uncompressed PC audio. So the best is to render wav directly so you don't loose any quality.

I usually encode with VV 3.0c (stopped using TMPGEnc) from the timeline and produce to 48 kHz wav seperately. In MyDVD you can bundle them again. I never experienced any sync problems.
SonyEPM wrote on 3/18/2002, 8:54 AM
Render the video using the "NTSC DVD video stream" template, then do a second pass and render the audio as .wav.

Tip: use the exact same name for the files (beside the extension of course).