DVD audio - Page 2

Appreciate the kind words.

Yes,if you want your High Definition Music to go-this really works nicely.

Make sure the DVD player you will use has a setting for 24/96 coaxial output,plug into a good dac and you're off to hi-def heaven anywhere there is power.

My last purchase was "Band on the Run HiRes Digital" from HD Tracks 18 songs and one .JPG,it's 1.54 GB.

I burned that whole album plus another eight or so HD tracks and the conversion rang up at 3.79 GB,pretty well filling up the 4.7 GB DVD,as there was no more room for another HD track.

You will see:AUDIO_TS / DATA / VIDEO_TS folders on the disc.

Yup,I have done many parties just as you are doing now,always had to get innovative to make sure the music rocked the house!

Caveat is you may need a small loop through monitor if you want to navigate through the song menu,other than jumping forward and back with the DVD player remote.

I have not really experimented with creating a menu on this software,my goal was mainly archival use,good luck with the music

It may get awkward to fade in and out of the music,going to the Top Menu option to change folders kills the music...so you will have to figure out a plan.
Edited by 5aces - 12/6/11 at 5:11pm

This probably works for content down-converted via software, as Larry describes, to 16/48kHz before playing on the (standard) DVD player. But even if your DVD player's D/A chip can handle hi-rez, it is unlikely that you are getting true 24/96 or 192 content through the digital output. Only a handful of players could ever do that, while most will downsample before sending through the digital outputs, often unbeknownst to the user.

 

Regarding other DAP's, iPod/Touch devices will downsample the content to 48k before digital output.

 

Analog output is another story. Some DVD players can handle hi-res files if in the proper "container". Again, iPods will down sample. Not sure how Sansa devices handle these files internally thru the headphone-out.

Here is a snip from the Pioneer DV-420V-K manual.

HDMI output (understood it is not the coax):
Audio signals that can be output
from the player’s HDMI OUT terminal
 44.1 kHz to 96 kHz, 16-bit/ 20-bit/ 24-bit
2-channel linear PCM audio (including
2-channel downmixing)
 Dolby Digital 5.1-channel audio
 DTS 5.1-channel audio
 MPEG audio

The Digital Audio Out Coaxial terminal from the Pioneer setup screen will output 24/96kHz,shown feeding into the DAC via S/PDIF:


From the Cirlinca audio software site:
DVD-Video is the ubiquitous video format and supports high-definition audio tracks up to 24 bits/96kHz stereo uncompressed PCM.
Or 24 bits/48kHz 5.1 compressed AC3.
It plays on any DVD player.
If your interest is for stereo at 24bit/96kHz or 24bit/48kHz, then a standard DVD-Video disc is a sufficient media when played through a good quality player.
Author DVD-Audio or DVD-Video (1) or universal discs (both)
Support for Still Video pictures (up to 20 per tracks)
Template for users to modify the picture overlay sub-titles
Gapless playback between tracks
Write to DVD±R/RW and DVD±R Dual Layer discs
Fully UNICODE compatible to handle all languages and character sets such as Chinese, Japanese, Eastern European, ...

Burning the HD tracks to DVD-Video disc using Cirlinca audio software and playing from the DVD to the DAC,I get a nice result but have not done in depth testing.
As long as the 24/96 PCM stereo track is not copy protected it will pass through the digital coaxial output to the DAC for conversion.
Pioneer players have done this for years,it is not uncommon.
Edited by 5aces - 12/7/11 at 3:18pm