[MacDV] Re: iDVD encoding

[Mark M. Florida]

Wait a second now...  iDVD doesn't encode from the "TS" folders, it CREATES
them, so how did you actually do this -- step-by-step?  Did you encode the
audio into AC3 with A.Pack then "Add" that to your iMovie project's
referencing movie with QuickTime Player?  And if you have A.Pack, you
probably have DVD SP, so what's the point of using iDVD anyway?

Maybe I'm dense, but what you're describing doesn't sound possible with
iDVD, unless maybe there are some hacks you're performing on the iDVD
project file?

Can you just stick an AC3 audio file in the AUDIO_TS folder of a DVD and
have it be recognized as an audio track for the DVD?  I thought there was
more to it than that...

Can you enlighten me (us)?

- Mark

On 3/19/04 12:00 PM, R B Williams at brucewll at comcast.net wrote:

> You can. Once the sound file is converted and in the AUdio-TS folder, iDVD
> doesn't know
> the difference. It's just much smaller than before so the encoding moves more
> swiftly. I
> did a comparison on a project that was 1:18 min total playtime.
> 
> First pass in iDVD with original audio took 3:35
> 2nd pass using the new audio encoded in 2:04
> 
> Additionally, the 2nd version plays without skips on 2 older consumer DVD
> machines that
> can't handle the original. It must have something to do with the bitrate,
> though I don't
> know the specifics. That "feature" is the reason I tried this initially and
> just
> happened to discover that it makes extra room for longer video time on each
> disc.
> 
> R.B.
> 
>> I have been wondering though whether one could do an  iDVD AND make an
>> APack 5.1 soundtrack and put it in the AUdio-TS folder for a choice,
>> presuming one has the data space,?
>> Jim