Makes bunches of sense and definitely answers my question.
On Jun 8, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
This sounds like possibly confusing media formats with storage
formats. In general DVD and CD are the same shape but written very
differently. DVD players can read CD but not the other way around.
CDs can generally hold about 682MB of data while DVDs hold about
4700MB per layer. So a dual layer DVD can hold about 9GB of data.
Uncompressed audio on standard CDs is usually in AIFF or Audio
Interleave File Format and are really big. So you can only fit 74
minutes on a CD in this format. It's also the basic format that
commercial CDs come as so many older players will only play this
uncompressed audio. MP3 format compresses down audio files to about
10% of their original size or more depending on quality. So you can
store a lot more mp3 files on a CD than aiff files. Likewise you
could put mp3 files on a DVD and store gobs of audio. Some players
will play these and some will not. mpeg2 is the video file format
used on DVDs which also contain audio tracks and take up a lot of
room. This was why DVDs were designed to hold so much. Generally
computers are much more tolerant of playing audio files off whatever
you've stored them on (DVD or CD) while standalone players are a lot
more picky.
Hope this helps.
CB
erik burggraaf wrote:
It depends on the format being burned. For example, you can't burn
100 tracks of cd audio to a dvd, put it in a cd player, and mlisten
to tunes.
If you have an iso though, you can burn it to any cd or dvd that
will support the size. I've burned iso's of data cd's to dvd's
when I didn't have blank cd's handy.
If you had a very short dvd clip that was under 700 mb, you could
burn that to a cd and it would play in a dvd player as a dvd.
Best,
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On 6-Jun-08, at 4:32 PM, vashaun jones wrote:
Listers is the technology different in a CD than what's on a DVD?
Meaning is a DVD just a higher capacity CD. Can I burn stuff to a
DVD and play it in a standard CD player as long as the media on
the DVD is in a format that the non computer CD player accepts?
