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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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    Most folk'll never lose a toe, and then again some folk'll...
  2. 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