iDVD encoding

[Jim Heid]

On 3/20/04 5:44 AM, "Macintosh Digital Video List"
<MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com> wrote:

> Subject: [MacDV] Re: iDVD encoding
> Message-id: <808F8CA5-7A1A-11D8-92D0-0003933EDC98 at optonline.net>
> 
> 
> On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 07:03  PM, Erica Sadun wrote:
> 
>> The AUDIO_TS folder is always empty.
>> 
>> 
> 
> An intriguing tidbit.

A further trivia tidbit: the AUDIO_TS folder is part of the DVD-Audio
specification.

>From Jim Taylor's DVD FAQ:

> DVD-Audio is a separate format from DVD-Video. DVD-Audio discs can be designed
> to work in DVD-Video players, but it's possible to make a DVD-Audio disc that
> won't play at all in a DVD-Video player, since the DVD-Audio specification
> includes new formats and features, with content stored in a separate
> "DVD-Audio zone" on the disc (the AUDIO_TS directory) that DVD-Video players
> never look at. New DVD-Audio players are needed, or new "universal players"
> that can play both DVD-Video and DVD-Audio discs. Universal players are also
> called VCAPs (video-capable audio players).

- Jim

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