fred roller: >> I make gross assumptions that audio dvd means you just put audio >> formatted files on a DVD of course, so please take with a grain of >> salt.
DVD-audio (or DVD-A) is a different beast than DVD-video (the names should give you a clue about purpose), and vastly different than random kinds of audio data files that happen to be on a DVD (but could be on any medium). DVD-audio was intended as an usurper to compact disc digital audio (large disc capacity, room for lots of audio, quality-wise, time-wise, and/or multi-channel). But it never really took off and DVD-audio is a rarity, and finding a player for it is even more unusual than finding the discs. I've never seen any in a shop, I think it'd all have to be special order. A DVD-audio disc is not going to be played by most DVD players, only ones that deliberately support it will do so. Of course you can encode a selection of audio tracks to a DVD-video, and get a few hours of playback, that way. But the quality will be inferior due to the compression. Though, if you want a disc that can play for a couple of hours, or more, that may be more convenient than a compact disc. And for something that you can playback in a car, you definitely want to make it start playing the files immediately, and progress through them all, so you don't need to navigate menus just to begin playback (unlike most movies). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Hooray! I finally finished typing this email. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
