ML Owners: How often do you put it to good use?
10-11-06, 01:19 PM
#46
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10-11-06, 01:22 PM
#47
Yes. Keep in mind there is a safety feature which requires the car to be in park and the emergency brake engaged. This can be bypassed (thereby enabling the ability to watch movies while the car is moving) by removing the nav unit and splicing/grounding some wires.
10-11-06, 06:27 PM
#48
I converted an mp3 into 2/0 (stereo) AC3... The compression ratio was 1:1 (ac3 was the same size as the mp3), but the sound quality was noticeably lower. I raised the bitrates, etc, and got about the same sound quality into an ac3 file that was twice as good. So, anyway, 850 ac3 songs on a Dual Layer DVD... Not bad... I just wonder what the navigation structure would be like, since each title can only have 99 chapters... Maybe have to make a title per "CD"???
10-11-06, 07:21 PM
#49
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Huh?!? Seems like a huge waste of effort and time converting MP3 to AC3. You're fooling yourself if you think you're getting better quality by increasing bitrates of the conversion. Garbage in, garbage out.
10-11-06, 07:26 PM
#50
Summary (for the reading impared
) -1) I want to burn mp3s to DVD
2) The ML system cannot read mp3s on DVD
3) The ML system CAN read ac3 on DVD
Hence the reason why I burned ac3 to DVD. To fit 850 songs on a single disc (DVD), instead of just 150 songs on a single disc (CD).
10-11-06, 08:10 PM
#51
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Dude, read the thread before you post.
Summary (for the reading impared) -
1) I want to burn mp3s to DVD
2) The ML system cannot read mp3s on DVD
3) The ML system CAN read ac3 on DVD
Hence the reason why I burned ac3 to DVD. To fit 850 songs on a single disc (DVD), instead of just 150 songs on a single disc (CD).
Summary (for the reading impared
) -1) I want to burn mp3s to DVD
2) The ML system cannot read mp3s on DVD
3) The ML system CAN read ac3 on DVD
Hence the reason why I burned ac3 to DVD. To fit 850 songs on a single disc (DVD), instead of just 150 songs on a single disc (CD).
I guess my point is, whay are converting MP3s to AC3. Why not convert the original sources to AC3. Unless all YOU have is bootlegs.
Last edited by TimboIS; 10-11-06 at 08:24 PM.
10-11-06, 08:24 PM
#52
I can read and I have an iPod, that's why it's a huge waste of time. Why settle for 850 songs, when you can have 10,000 songs in higher quality. Especially from someone that actually has an IS.
I guess my point is, whay are converting MP3s to AC3. Why not convert the original sources to AC3. Unless all YOU have is bootlegs.
I guess my point is, whay are converting MP3s to AC3. Why not convert the original sources to AC3. Unless all YOU have is bootlegs.
As for the converting, all of my mp3s are 256kbps, high quality rips from the original CDs. But only have maybe 4-5 of the original CDs left...
But, even if I had the original CDs, the last thing I'd want to do is re-rip 100s of CDs... Much easier to do a batch convert of mp3 to ac3.
10-12-06, 12:33 AM
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Well for the IS impaired. I have an iPod, that's why it's a huge waste of time. Why settle for 850 songs, when you can have 10,000 songs in higher quality.
I guess my point is, whay are converting MP3s to AC3. Why not convert the original sources to AC3. Unless all YOU have is bootlegs.
I guess my point is, whay are converting MP3s to AC3. Why not convert the original sources to AC3. Unless all YOU have is bootlegs.
10-12-06, 02:08 PM
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Wow, I bought a DVD-Audio disk today just to check it out on the ML. Very, very nice. They only had a couple dozen different astist so not much of a selection. I got Santana and the police. The Santana disk sounds incrediable. DVD-A's seem to pretty much kick ***. It sounds so much freakin better than what comes out of the IPOD or a CD for that matter.
10-12-06, 04:45 PM
#55
Lexus Champion
Wow, I bought a DVD-Audio disk today just to check it out on the ML. Very, very nice. They only had a couple dozen different astist so not much of a selection. I got Santana and the police. The Santana disk sounds incrediable. DVD-A's seem to pretty much kick ***. It sounds so much freakin better than what comes out of the IPOD or a CD for that matter.
12-02-06, 04:53 PM
#57
Lexus Champion
it won't play at all in my ml player, am i doing something wrong?
12-03-06, 12:30 AM
#58
Also, unrelated but is there a way to burn dvd-a information onto a dvd disc!?
12-03-06, 12:38 AM
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12-03-06, 09:08 AM
#60
Lexus Champion
The ML system should recognize it and show the disc as 'DVD-A' and play it as like any disc. Perhaps the disc is defective? Not unheard of....