[SurroundSound] Re: Converting dvd-audio to avchd

Sorry I can't help, but I also have some questions/thoughts...

I don't have a blu-ray player either. I've had my eyes on an Oppo for
awhile now, but I'm waiting for either a price drop or a new model.
One thing I don't like is the aesthetic faceplate look – I don't like
to see my fingerprints splashed all over it. If they could change the
clear glasslike look to something having a bit of texture (i.e.
silverish) then I might be persuaded sooner. Also I don't have a big
flat screen HT display yet – so I'll just wait for now.

But I will eventually migrate my hi-rez audio to blu-ray. Not sure if
Avchd is the way to go – I thought that was the solution to author DVD
media to play on Blu-ray player, but the Blu-ray media has come down
in price rivaling DVDR for bytes per $, and you can have allot of
music to choose from. Getting back to the Oppo, it is suppose to play
multichannel hi-rez audio on disc isn't it, so maybe someone could
write some kind of blu-ray compatible menu system (like DVD-A which
could have a bitmap pic) to select flacs on a disc that the Oppo could
understand, or does Oppo player have something like that already.

The other thing is what audio format has the best compression ratio
for HD audio (so you put more music on a BD). Blu-ray doesn't support
mlp, but it supports truehd, and the only truehd encoder runs on a MAC
only, or is there a way (s/w) you can easily emulate a MAC on a PC to
use the truehd encoder? DTS-HD Master seems the choice for hi-rez
multichannel audio for Blu-ray, but I find its to bloated. If I only
want lossless why do I have to encode lossy DTS to have a filesize
twice what I want (wasted bytes far as I'm concerned). I suppose
truehd is just as bad, so flac or other readable/playable formats is
probably the way to go.

I'm not ranting, I just have these questions as to the best method
for hi-rez surround in migrating to bd, and perhaps there are
alternatives to the Oppo player which can now play hi-rez multichannel
audio files flac etc. Anyone have other ideas or suggestions to share?

On Oct 15, 8:39 pm, Valhalla <goo...@vallen.id.au> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Just got myself a blu-ray burner so I thought the time might be right
> to convert all my dvd-audios to blu-ray (without quality loss if
> possible).  I don't mind if I lose the video or lyrics etc - I just
> want the music!  Any ideas on the best software to do this?  Are there
> any step by step guides?
>
> Thanks
> Glenn

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