Adobeman’s DVDA GUI

The program provides a Graphical User Interface around open source programs available freely on the web in order to help users make DVD Audio disks. This program integrates DVD Audio Tools, CDR Tools and BeSweet. See the About screen of the application for links.

What it Does

This GUI takes your files and runs a process that will:

  1. Convert compressed mp3 music files to wav files that are compatible with the DVDA process. BeSweet is used for this.
  2. Create a DVD Audio structure using DVD Audio Tools. This is a combination of AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories. Only the AUDIO_TS directory is used. The files inside the AUDIO_TS directory are the music on the disc.
  3. Create an ISO file using CDR Tools. This is an image of the DVD Audio disk
  4. Scan the image file for the starting sector used by DVD Audio players.
  5. Create the DVD Audio structure again except this time tell DVD Audio Tools the value to use for the starting sector.
  6. Create the ISO file again using CDR Tools. This is the image of the DVD Audio disk that you can burn.

Perhaps some day steps 5 and 6 can be dropped but I have found without them the disks usually won’t play in many audio-only players. (like those found in cars)