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Burn a DVD-AC3 Compatible CD-R

Posted by chrisd on from the zoiby-wants-to-buy-internet-stocks dept.

grant+harris writes "This interesting article shows how it is possible to burn AC-3 audio onto a normal CD-R. Will this technology usher a new type of online piracy when DVD-Audio and surround sound systems become more commonplace?" While this is only audio, it is a good step in the right direction.

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  1. You can do more than that... by ferrocene · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has been out for over a year, maybe two. Oddly enough, I was just doing this last night. There's several programs that will do this, in fact there's a program that will do this in one easy step as opposed to SoftEncode...

    http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/besu re .html

    "This program allows a direct conversion from VOB/AC3 to CD, using BeSweet (freeware) and SurCode DTS (for DTS-CDs : commercial-ware)!! Makes AC3-CDs, DTS-CDs and standard CDDA discs. "

    This is way cool. I took my roomate's Dave Matthews DVD, popped it through this program, and out came a burned CD in either DTS-CD, DD5.1, or regular CD. Way cool, and perfectly legal as far as I'm concerned. I'm making a backup and/or transfering the media to a different format.

    And the original article was published here:

    http://www.modernrecording.com/articles/soundav/ li nk46.html

    quite some time ago.

    Better than that, you can burn mini-dvd's on to a CD. There are several programs that will burn the ISO DVD directory structure on to a regular CD. This comes in handy for say, when I took my roomate's NIN DVD in DTS, and extracted the DTS track, and burned that onto a dvd-cd. The DTS track is a perfect 550mb. How cool is that. Also good for burning DD5.1/THX trailers onto a CD to take to the home theater shops to test out their systems. You can get full blown .vob's here:

    http://dvdgsm.free.fr/vob.html
    http://www.digit al-digest.com/dvd/downloads/traile rs.html

    I have my copy with 12 different trailers, including the simpsons THX one. It doesn't work in all players, you need to test them out. :)

    Fun programs to have:
    Surcode DTS encoder
    Sonic Foundry Soft Encode
    Gear Pro CD/DVD burner
    Scenarist NT dvd authoring program (it's a $39,000 program which can be used to make menus like the Matrix DVD)
    vobrator
    DVDDecrypter

    websites to visit:

    doom9.org
    apachez.has.it
    http://tatooine.fortu necity.com/jabba/220/miniDVD. html
    http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/articles/d vd_con vert_minidvd.html

    and of course #pcdvd on efnet.

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  2. More from http://www.doom9.org by Codeala · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.doom9.org contains lots of information and tools to work with AC3 plus DVD, MP3 etc. The tools are mainly for expert users as they are mostly commandline only. Althought some of them come with GUI wrappers, I am not sure if they are much help as they are perfect examples of GUI from hell (no offends!). They will get the job done if you are willing to commit quite a bit of time.

    Of course if you don't have a good decoder/speakers don't waste your time on AC3.

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    Codeala - Just another mindless drone
  3. WAV-padded AC-3 not reliable by yroJJory · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've done a considerable amount of testing 5.1 formats on CD-R and DVD-R (and variations). Yes, AC3 can be WAV-padded to look like a PCM audio file and subsequently put onto a red book CD-DA disc, but I've found that most older AC3 decoders don't understand the reverse bit-order format.

    On the flip side, WAV-padded DTS does work on all DTS decoders, as it was included in the format from the beginning.

    Additionally, DTS is a better format because it is fixed-rate 4:1 compression, as opposed to AC3's variable 12:1.

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    Jory