From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 30 09:09:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE7416A4E1 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:09:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from post1.network-i.net (antigua.network-i.net [212.21.121.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E9B443D49 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:09:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 19756 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2006 09:09:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.1.134?) (212.21.99.52) by post1.network-i.net with SMTP; 30 Aug 2006 09:09:44 -0000 Message-ID: <44F55574.7000200@thingy.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:08:04 +0100 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: steveb@erienet.net References: <20060827053654.GA60292@thought.org> <20060827060122.GA63679@ozzmosis.com> <20060827074946.GA60715@thought.org> <20060827181340.A18228@erienet.net> In-Reply-To: <20060827181340.A18228@erienet.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:09:46 -0000 steveb@erienet.net wrote: > If your DVD player can't play mp3s, then it can't play DVDs. ;) > Remember, mp3s are the audio layer of mpegs. And DVD videos consist of > mpegs. For a DVD-Video disc, the audio formats are PCM (plain old wav, effectively), AC-3 (dolby digital) and MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (only). A lot of DVD players will also play MP3s, either on data CDs or data DVDs (or both), but it isn't a requirement as far as I can tell. The choices seem pretty arbitrary too. My Pioneer player will play a DVD-R full of MP3s, but the replacement model will only play MP3 CD-Rs (and you have to read the fine print in the manual to figure it out, too). It seems that a lot of DivX-playing DVD players only play CDs of DivX, not DVDs too (Toshiba, Pioneer again). That's why I was fiddling around with MP2 and minimal video - it's an actual standard DVD then. Although in fact I made an NTSC disc with MP2, which is apparently a no-no. My source was for the audio info was: http://stream.uen.org/medsol/dvd/pages/dvd_format_audio4DVDvideo.html Howie