From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 30 08:48:19 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 1B1FD16A4DF for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from smtp.mel.people.net.au (smtp.mel.people.net.au [218.214.17.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41FE743D53 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:48:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: (qmail 15663 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2006 08:48:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blizzard.dnsalias.org) (218.214.144.129) by smtp.mel.people.net.au with SMTP; 30 Aug 2006 08:48:17 -0000 Received: by blizzard.dnsalias.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0764C54F; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:48:16 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:48:15 +1000 From: andrew clarke To: steveb@erienet.net Message-ID: <20060830084815.GA7352@ozzmosis.com> References: <20060827053654.GA60292@thought.org> <20060827060122.GA63679@ozzmosis.com> <20060827074946.GA60715@thought.org> <20060827181340.A18228@erienet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060827181340.A18228@erienet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 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 08:48:19 -0000 On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:13:40PM -0400, steveb@erienet.net wrote: > > I suppose I can buy a DVD-R[W] and fnd out, but is there any reason > > why I can't have many hours of audio on a DVD? In other words, id a DVD > > *only* for video? --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's > > onto one Very long-playing disk. > > 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. The main issue I've had is that some (particularly older) DVD players won't recognise the file system on data DVDs (neither ISO or UDF), and so won't see that there are MP3s on the disc. The same players happily accepted MP3s on data CDs though. Blank CDs are also dirt cheap. Based on my rough calculations, you should be able to store about 3000 minutes (50 hours) of 32 kbit MP3 audio on a single 700 Mb data CD.