Questions about DVD-Lab Pro

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I got a few questions about this program: 1-If I decide to create a mpeg-2
file with separate sound and video streams (.m2v and .mp2 usually), will the
program accept that? 2-If that works, can I use a .wav file as my audio
stream? 3-How about 'mp3' wav files? Does the program accept them too?
Thanks a lot for your help!

 

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On Thu 08 Jul 2004 05:18:51p, "Ampersand" <ampersand@yourbestfriend.com>
wrote:

> I got a few questions about this program: 1-If I decide to create a
> mpeg-2 file with separate sound and video streams (.m2v and .mp2
> usually), will the program accept that?

Yes, elementary streams are what it likes.

> 2-If that works, can I use a .wav file as my audio stream?

Probably, if you WAV contains conformant PCM audio.

> 3-How about 'mp3' wav files? Does the
> program accept them too?

I don't think so. MPEG Audio Layer3 is not a valid format for DVD, as far
as I know.

> Thanks a lot for your help!

That'll be $40 please.

 

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"Bob Stedenko" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu 08 Jul 2004 05:18:51p, "Ampersand" <ampersand@yourbestfriend.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I got a few questions about this program: 1-If I decide to create a
> > mpeg-2 file with separate sound and video streams (.m2v and .mp2
> > usually), will the program accept that?
>
> Yes, elementary streams are what it likes.
>
Great

> > 2-If that works, can I use a .wav file as my audio stream?
>
> Probably, if you WAV contains conformant PCM audio.
>
Nope...it is a wav with a wav file header but mp3-compressed (same file size
as an mp3 file, only it is a wav)

> > 3-How about 'mp3' wav files? Does the
> > program accept them too?
>
> I don't think so. MPEG Audio Layer3 is not a valid format for DVD, as far
> as I know.
>
If that's the case, can DVD-Lab Pro convert my file on-the-fly? The file
isn't an mp3 file, but a wav file although it could still be considered as
such because it is compressed (in 128 kbps). If I take this file and encode
it into a 128 kbps mp2 file, I usually lose some sound quality. If I
decompress it into a regular wav file, I won't lose quality but I'll
probably lose some again when I'll re-encode it, even if the bitrate is the
same. Is that right?

> > Thanks a lot for your help!
>
> That'll be $40 please.
I think the program itself (or the regular DVD-Lab) isn't much more than
that

 

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On Fri 09 Jul 2004 04:56:48p, "Ampersand" <ampersand@yourbestfriend.com>
wrote:

> If that's the case, can DVD-Lab Pro convert my file on-the-fly? The
> file isn't an mp3 file, but a wav file although it could still be
> considered as such because it is compressed (in 128 kbps). If I take
> this file and encode it into a 128 kbps mp2 file, I usually lose some
> sound quality. If I decompress it into a regular wav file, I won't
> lose quality but I'll probably lose some again when I'll re-encode it,
> even if the bitrate is the same. Is that right?

I don't know if DVD-Lab will convert it for you - however, if it did,
you'd likely lose some quality anyway. So convert it yourself as best you
can, then import it.

As I've not used MP3 audio, you'd be better off either asking on the
forums (mmbforums.com) or downloading the 30-day trial and giving it a go.