I have several questions about MF4's Audio DVD capabilities that I hope you can help me with. First, will MF4 automatically create menus (e.g., Artist, Album, and Title) to navigate the music? Does it display album art from imbeded ID3 tags? And, will it import DRM protected WMA files?
Thanks in advance for your help.
MF4's Audio DVD Capabilities
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maddrummer3301
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With MF4 you can create 2 different types of audio dvd's.
DVD-Audio or Dvd-Video(audio only).
The DVD-Audio disk is a plain vanilla dvd-audio disk that will play in players capable of playing dvd-audio disks. The maximum sampling frequency is 48khz with 16bit resolution when creating a dvd-audio disk. No menus. pcm audio.
The nice feature of the dvd-audio disk is you can put the equivelent of about 5 cd's of music on it. Great for a car's dvd-audio player.
The DVD-Video audio disk writes the dvd-video format and it's basically a dvd-video disks with audiio tracks, no menus. It will not play in the cars dvd-audio player but will play in any standard video dvd player.
Choice of Dolby or lpcm audio when making this disk.
To properly create a dvd-audio disk you need to install MF4's latest updates.
Hope this helps,
MD
DVD-Audio or Dvd-Video(audio only).
The DVD-Audio disk is a plain vanilla dvd-audio disk that will play in players capable of playing dvd-audio disks. The maximum sampling frequency is 48khz with 16bit resolution when creating a dvd-audio disk. No menus. pcm audio.
The nice feature of the dvd-audio disk is you can put the equivelent of about 5 cd's of music on it. Great for a car's dvd-audio player.
The DVD-Video audio disk writes the dvd-video format and it's basically a dvd-video disks with audiio tracks, no menus. It will not play in the cars dvd-audio player but will play in any standard video dvd player.
Choice of Dolby or lpcm audio when making this disk.
To properly create a dvd-audio disk you need to install MF4's latest updates.
Hope this helps,
MD
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maddrummer3301
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I don't know about the protected media.
Using Burn-Now audio capabilities you can covert files to a few different formats for audio. Even files directly from CD's.
As far as making a dvd video audio disk with or without menus is simple.
It's also very simple to create a "Text Only" Menuing Dvd with MF4.
When you do this you make a mpeg2 file with a very low bitrate and
a high audio bit-rate for good quality audio.
Hope this helps,
MD
Using Burn-Now audio capabilities you can covert files to a few different formats for audio. Even files directly from CD's.
As far as making a dvd video audio disk with or without menus is simple.
It's also very simple to create a "Text Only" Menuing Dvd with MF4.
When you do this you make a mpeg2 file with a very low bitrate and
a high audio bit-rate for good quality audio.
Hope this helps,
MD
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maddrummer3301
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If this helps, I just took 6 of my CD's and used Data-Add to convert them
to pcm on the harddisk. Along with naming the albums & titles via the
software's web linking.
Everything was done using MF4 Disc Creator version 4.04.
Created a Dvd-Video Audio Only dvd with 43 songs.
On the final dvd every song is a chapter.
The dvd menuing system isn't navigational. It displays what song is playing
in a list of the songs. So to naviagate the dvd you hit the chapter button
on the remote. Works nice.
I usually stay with pcm audio. 43 songs came out to 2.4 gig so I could have
put alot more on the dvd. (You can always convert down in quality but never up).
It did take the program awhile to create the dvd. If a person uses this module I would strongly suggest not to burn to dvd direct and create
an ISO image file and burn that in another process to dvd.
Program used alot of memory.
MD
to pcm on the harddisk. Along with naming the albums & titles via the
software's web linking.
Everything was done using MF4 Disc Creator version 4.04.
Created a Dvd-Video Audio Only dvd with 43 songs.
On the final dvd every song is a chapter.
The dvd menuing system isn't navigational. It displays what song is playing
in a list of the songs. So to naviagate the dvd you hit the chapter button
on the remote. Works nice.
I usually stay with pcm audio. 43 songs came out to 2.4 gig so I could have
put alot more on the dvd. (You can always convert down in quality but never up).
It did take the program awhile to create the dvd. If a person uses this module I would strongly suggest not to burn to dvd direct and create
an ISO image file and burn that in another process to dvd.
Program used alot of memory.
MD