Music DVD

Music DVD is a format that holds audio, supporting various formats such as dolby digital, dts with multichannel configuration.  The structure is as normal DVD (AUDIO_TS, VIDEO_TS) contains the files in VIDEO_TS.

 This format is compatible with all domestic DVD players. It supports menu and navigation feature etc. as in Normal DVD.

 Music DVD contains video stream (blank video @720x480) and audio streams (max 02, either dobly digital or dts or both).

 The audio data on a DVD can be PCM, DTS, MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (MP2), or Dolby Digital (AC-3) format. The audio track using the PCM, MP2, or AC-3 format, and all standard players must support all three of these formats. DTS audio is optional for all players, many early players are unable to play DTS audio tracks. The vast majority of commercial DVD-Video  today employ AC-3 audio. The allowed formats for the audio tracks on a DVD are:

PCM: 48 kHz or 96 kHz sampling rate, 16 bit or 24 bit Linear PCM, 2 to 6 channels, up to 6,144 kbit/s. N.B. 16-bit 48 kHz 8 channel PCM is allowed by the DVD-Video specification but is not well-supported by authoring applications or players.

AC-3: 48 kHz sampling rate, 1 to 5.1 (6) channels, up to 448 kbit/s

DTS: 48 kHz or 96 kHz sampling rate, 2 to 6.1 channels, up to 768 kbit/s for Half Rate, up to 1,536 kbit/s for Full Rate

 DVDs can contain more than one channel of audio to go together with the video content, This is most commonly used for different audio formats – DTS 5.1, AC-3 2.0 etc. – as well as for commentary and audio tracks in different languages.

 A DVD volume for the DVD-Video format has the following structure of directories and files

AUDIO_TS directory: empty or not present on DVD-Video discs; contains files only on DVD Audio discs; a.k.a. Audio Title Sets directory; included on DVD-Video discs for compatibility reasons

VIDEO_TS directory: stores all data for the DVD-Video; a.k.a. Video Title Sets directory. This directory is required to be present on a DVD-compliant disc.