27 Aug
2003
27 Aug
'03
7:29 a.m.
--- Steve Harris <S.W.Harris(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
Anyone else have more information about this? Is there another way to
handle high-resolution DVD-A?
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:48:32PM -0700, kevin ernste
wrote:
Sounds silly, but I have no idea, never tried video or even looked at
it :) The software (http://www.minnetonkaaudio.com) is audio-specific.
Just to be clear, we own an internal DVD-R/RW Pioneer drive (sub $300),
not the stand-alone Pioneer setup Daniel was referring to. The
multi-channel mix (the music) is encoded in software to an mlp, and
then burned with DVD-A authoring software.
The Pioneer doesn't do the real-time MLP
encoding, it's done in
software. An encoding app writes an .mlp file which is then burned
from a separate tool.
Ah, that explains it. Thanks. So its just video it can do in
realtime. Regardless of MLP (highly unlikely, as you say,
because of patents)
or
something like it, DVD-A support for linux would
be a great thing.
Yes, thats very true. Are any other formats allowed for DVD-A? audio part of DVD video can use MPEG streams IIRC, and
we have
free-ish
MPEG encoders. 9+ MB/s of 4 channel MPEG would be pretty high
quality.
I'd be interested in having another look at this question. What can we
do today with Linux for DVD Audio? Frankly, I remember being
disappointed with Audio capabilities under the Video specs, which is
why we spent the cash and bought the mlp stuff.
How far (sampling/bit) does 9+ MB/s get us with, for example, 4
channels of audio (too lazy to do the math -- it's 5 am)?
Kevin
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