This seems like such an involved topic that it's difficult to know where to begin...but I'll do my best.
This started out as an SACD (stereo & MC) ripping experiment. After some difficulties, Sonore SACD Extract GUI successfully rendered DSF/DSD files, which, by employing JRiver Media Center for Mac, were converted to FLAC/PCM and, eventually, to WAV (to accommodate the next step). Next, the freeware utility, FFmpeg, was used to successfully convert our multichannel (MC) WAV files to MLP.
Inspired by this post on the QQ forum, I began reading up on another freeware utility called DVD-A Author GUI and, eventually, I downloaded a version for Mac. It seems to have worked, up to a point, but it didn't "find" our DVD burner, so I was forced to try the only alternative for Mac that I knew of. To clarify, DVD-A Author GUI created an empty VIDEO_TS folder and an AUDIO_TS folder that seems to contain files of the correct type and size (see screenshot below). There's also a patch in this GUI that allows the freeware utility, mkisofs, to create an ISO image containing both the VIDEO_TS and the AUDIO_TS folders I just described...and, as the DVD-A Author GUI isn't communicating with our DVD recorder, I tried the Burn To Disc utility that comes with macOS. Although I've archived a few ISO images using this utility in the past, I've never tried burning an MC ISO to be used in a DVD-A player before.
As per the post link (above), ImgBurn for Windows was used to create a functioning DVD-A. Does anyone know of an equivalent DVD burning utility for Mac that can handle recording a multichannel audio ISO image? Perhaps there's a better way to go about this process? Either way, I'd appreciate your thoughts.
By the way, I've previously experimented with Burn for Mac and, similarly, it will not burn MC audio files. On the other hand, it will create a stereo ISO image and burn it to create a simple functioning DVD-A, so the good news is that we seem to have a way to create stereo DVD-As.
Thank you for your time...
Screenshot of the AUDIO_TS folder created by DVD-A Author GUI:
This started out as an SACD (stereo & MC) ripping experiment. After some difficulties, Sonore SACD Extract GUI successfully rendered DSF/DSD files, which, by employing JRiver Media Center for Mac, were converted to FLAC/PCM and, eventually, to WAV (to accommodate the next step). Next, the freeware utility, FFmpeg, was used to successfully convert our multichannel (MC) WAV files to MLP.
Inspired by this post on the QQ forum, I began reading up on another freeware utility called DVD-A Author GUI and, eventually, I downloaded a version for Mac. It seems to have worked, up to a point, but it didn't "find" our DVD burner, so I was forced to try the only alternative for Mac that I knew of. To clarify, DVD-A Author GUI created an empty VIDEO_TS folder and an AUDIO_TS folder that seems to contain files of the correct type and size (see screenshot below). There's also a patch in this GUI that allows the freeware utility, mkisofs, to create an ISO image containing both the VIDEO_TS and the AUDIO_TS folders I just described...and, as the DVD-A Author GUI isn't communicating with our DVD recorder, I tried the Burn To Disc utility that comes with macOS. Although I've archived a few ISO images using this utility in the past, I've never tried burning an MC ISO to be used in a DVD-A player before.
As per the post link (above), ImgBurn for Windows was used to create a functioning DVD-A. Does anyone know of an equivalent DVD burning utility for Mac that can handle recording a multichannel audio ISO image? Perhaps there's a better way to go about this process? Either way, I'd appreciate your thoughts.
By the way, I've previously experimented with Burn for Mac and, similarly, it will not burn MC audio files. On the other hand, it will create a stereo ISO image and burn it to create a simple functioning DVD-A, so the good news is that we seem to have a way to create stereo DVD-As.
Thank you for your time...
Screenshot of the AUDIO_TS folder created by DVD-A Author GUI:
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