taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

[hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)]

On 27 August 2006, at 16:38, Howard Jones wrote:

> hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
>> That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't  
>> read in a  normal CD drive... and I really don't know how exactly  
>> you would do it either...
>
> Not necessarily. Both of my current DVD players can play a DVD full  
> of MP3 files.

You bring up a good point, but that's not part of the DVD standard.
> One is a Pioneer, and the other is a more 'random' brand DVD/DiVX  
> player. The Pioneer does a better job, but both will "play" data  
> discs of MP3, WMA, JPEG and MPEG1 amongst other things.
>
> Another possibility would be to convert to MP2 audio and make a  
> minimal video stream to go alongside the audio - say, a black  
> screen, and make a DVD Video disk using something like transcode.

The blank video would waste lots of space on the DVD, I think.

> I don't know what the bare minimum video bitrate is for DVD, but I  
> know you can get a good few hours that way, in a format that would  
> play on any DVD player. I've been meaning to try this for ages.

That is true.

>
> Howie
>