[linux-audio-user] creating audio-only dvds

[derek holzer]

Hi all,

I have about a five and a half hour long concert I would like to burn as 
audio on a DVD. I assumed that cdrdao or cdrecord would simply make an 
"audio dvd" from the wav files, but that is not the case! My guess is 
that there is something in the CDDA spec which prevents making an audio 
CD over a certain length, because I get "illegal time code" errors from 
cdrdao.

So, three questions:

1) Is there a way to master an "audio dvd" without encoding to a closed 
DVD-A format? By this I mean a DVD disc with uncompressed audio which 
can be played back by most CD/DVD combo players.

2) Failing this, I would be happy to simply burn a data DVD with the 
tracks, but I want to make sure there are no gaps during playback 
between the tracks [thus my idea to make a DAO "audio dvd"]. There are 7 
tracks, each approx 50 min long, and each track continues directly into 
the next. I do not have access to the original, continuous recording. 
How could I get ecasound [or similar command line app] to append the 
files together into one single, seamless file? Using a GUI app like 
Rezound for this is just too cumbersome!

3) I am not sure if have a single 4 Gb wav file would cause playback 
problems on a reasonably fast computer with a DVD drive. My intuition 
says yes, however. What other options for seamless playback of almost 6 
hours of sound do I have?

thanks much,
derek