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AČ
07-02-2002, 13:07
Howdo,

Have a need to commercially create a minimum 1000 run of audio material, with accompanying moving images.

I'm figuring DVD is the best way to do this BUT need to be able to also play the disc in a CD player.

Does anyone know if the DVD standard permits double sided discs where one is CD playable, and the other is the PCM stereo DVD movie version of the same?

Also, can anyone recommend a company that can acheive the above on either one or two discs?

Cheers,

AČ
Phill
07-02-2002, 15:20
I've never heard of a disk with such a spec which implies that nobody makes them. I suspect it would cost you an awful lot of money to do it if you could do it at all. Why not get double cases and put a DVD and CD in it. It'll be cheaper and easier.
kcxdev
07-02-2002, 15:36
I have a few discs that play as a normal audio CD and as a Video CD in a dvd/vcd player. It might be the best compromise if you want to fir both type of media on a single disc. i *think* its called mixed mode cd or something.
AČ
07-02-2002, 17:01
Cheers all,

At the advice of kcxdev I've been looking at VideoCD2.0 and SuperVideoCD. Both look pretty good (CD-Audio can be included on a separate part of the disc), but SuperVideoCD's Mpeg2 compression has gotta help.

Ooh! Does anyone know the audio quality of video CD. I'm figuring its not the full 44.1 of CD, right?

Cheers,

AČ
Chris
07-02-2002, 17:40
Originally posted by AČ
Howdo,

Have a need to commercially create a minimum 1000 run of audio material, with accompanying moving images.

I'm figuring DVD is the best way to do this BUT need to be able to also play the disc in a CD player.

Does anyone know if the DVD standard permits double sided discs where one is CD playable, and the other is the PCM stereo DVD movie version of the same?

Also, can anyone recommend a company that can acheive the above on either one or two discs?

Cheers,

AČ

A DVD Plus exists. This is can be a dual layer dvd on one side with a standard CD on the other. Problems with it include cost and compatability (it's a lot thicker than normal dvds so not all players can use it. ie slot-in players). In the US a company called DVD+CD Ltd. makes them.


VCD can support 44.1kHz audio, it has to be MPEG-1 audio @ 224 kbps. If you want the audio separated from the video then it can be encoded like a normal CD.


Don't forget not all players support VideoCD2.0 and SuperVideoCD.