DVD-Audio is a standard for storing uncompressed high quality stereo or multi-channel audio content on a standard DVD disk. Supported sampling frequencies range from 44.1KHz (the Red-Book CD Audio standard) up to 192KHz, with sampling depths of 16, 20 or 24 bits.
A single DVD can contain both DVD-Audio content (in the AUDIO_TS directory) and DVD-Video content (in the VIDEO_TS directory). Most DVD players only recognise and playback the VIDEO_TS content, but an increasing number of dual-format players can play the contents of the AUDIO_TS as well. Such players will display the DVD-Audio logo.
A single DVD-Audio disk is referred to as an Album. An Album can consist of up to 9 Groups, each containing up to 99 Tracks. In addition, the contents of the AUDIO_TS directory can contain references to objects in the VIDEO_TS directory (but not vice-versa).
More information can be found on the Project Status page.
[10 Sept 2019] Add DVD-Audio playback for GNU/Linux, OSX and Windows.
[22 Aug 2019] Audio extraction to WAV from MLP-encoded or PCM discs.Experimental MLP support. Updated website. Graphical interface update.
[12 Nov 2013] DVD-Audio/Video hybrid authoring.
[01 Jul 2010] Patch against cdrtools-3.00 (mkisofs) [Jerome Brock/Fabrice Nicol].
[26 Jun 2010] Stabilized development version 10.06. Added still pictures, slideshows and active menus. [Fabrice Nicol].
[15 Nov 2009] Added submenus to menu authoring [Fabrice Nicol].
[01 Sep 2009] development version dvda-author-09.09 with top menu authoring.
[15 Aug 2009] several bugfixes for dvda-author-09.05.
[30 May 2009] dvda-author-09.05 released [Fabrice Nicol, other contributors].
[04 May 2009] updated mkisofs patch [Jerome Brock].
[30 Jan 2009] dvda-author-gui 09.02 released
[22 Jan 2009] dvda-author-gui 09.01 released.
[28 Dec 2008] dvda-author-gui 08.12-3 released with extraction feature.
[25 Dec 2008] dvda-author 08.12 released [Fabrice Nicol, Lee and Tim Feldkamp].
[24 Dec 2008] Windows installer for dvda-author graphical user interface released.
[22 Dec 2008] Source code of dvda-author graphical user interface released [Fabrice Nicol].
[28 Sep 2008] Source code of 08-09-dev made portable to
Windows and *nix platforms.Integrates extractor (ats2wav) and header
repair module (fixwav) [Fabrice Nicol].
[20 Aug 2008] Source code of 08-08-dev made portable to *nix platforms.
[19 Aug 2008] Windows installers released for versions 08.07 and 08.08-dev (Cygwin)
[18 Aug 2008] Hplex version 0.1.3 released (integrates dvda-author version 08.07)
[10 Aug 2008] Stable version 08.07 moved to SF File Release System [Fabrice Nicol].
Dev version 08.08-dev released for GNU/Linux.
[07 Jul 2008] New version released (08.06) for *nix platforms and Cygwin.
[09 May 2008] New patch against mkisofs for dvda-author. New howto page.
[25 Oct 2007] Added guide to Light GUI for DVD audio Tools.
[14 Oct 2007] New version of Hplex with group management and Light GUI for DVD audio Tools.
[23 Sep 2007] New version of AUDIO_TS.IFO table [Fabrice Nicol]. Added new mkisofs diff patch.
[22 Sep 2007] New version of AUDIO_PP.IFO table [Fabrice Nicol]. Added Some Notes on Hybrids (1) and (2)
[21 Sep 2007] Revised website pages. New Hplex test page
[20 Sep 2007] Added Hplex package for Hybrid DVD building
[27 Mar 2005] Added FLAC support to dvda-author [Dave Chapman]
[26 Mar 2005] Added support for up to 24-bit audio
[19 Mar 2005] Added support for up to 9 groups of tracks (available in latest alpha release)
[14 Mar 2005] First working version of dvda-author committed to CVS (16-bit Stereo, one group only)
[01 Mar 2005] Website launched
[21 Feb 2005] Project registered at Sourceforge [Dave Chapman]