Re: [Ogle-user] Re: DVD-Audio & SACD (Super Audio CDs)

DVD-Audio
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While pure DVD-As will not play on standard DVD players, most releases
(including all the titles produced by Warner, Atlantic, and Elektra) contain a 
Dolby Digital surround-sound mix, making them playable on any DVD player. 

SACD
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Super Audio CDs (SACDs) offer some of the highest-fidelity listening available 
today. Most SACDs have been remastered to feature at least five channels of 
surround sound. While some SACDs are hybrids (playable on any standard CD 
player), to experience the full impact of these discs, you'll need a proper 
SACD playback system.


So DVD-Audio should be possible as long as we know the format. While SACD act 
as normal cds if they're hybrid, still useless if you're interessted in 
thebest possible sound. Although I saw some reports that some dvd rom players 
actually are able to access the non-hybrid content.

Since these two are primarly used for audio and video is sort of extra, I'm 
mostly interested in the ability of playing the audio.

	Sander



On Tuesday 23 December 2003 01:04 pm, H}kan Hjort wrote:
> Mon Dec 22 2003, Sander Jansen wrote:
> > In theorie, would we be able to play these kind of discs (via the audio
> > subsystem of Ogle?). Probably not right away, but maybe with some
> > modifications?  Whats involved ?
>
> Real DVD-Audio discs are something totally different from DVD-Video
> discs.  Of the two directories on all DVDs VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS, the
> first contains all the DVD-Video matterial and the second the
> DVD-Audio parts.  There is little or no information regarding how to
> decode the DVD-Audio parts as far as I know.  Though I belive there are
> a few different formats to select from there also.  Some information
> about the information/navigation parts are available in DVD Demystified
> but I haven't look into it much.
> So _if_ they contain a  supported adudio format the we could possibly
> play just the aduio without text/lyric/information/pictures.
>
> I know next to nothing about SACDs, do they also have picture/text data
> on them?  Are there even any computer drives that can read SACDs?

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