schultz1010
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Not sure why I didn't receive a thread update mail item from QQ. I don't check the forums often - normally wait to get a mail item saying someone's replied.
Couple small corrections
1) DVD-Audio discs do not have "multichannel" or "stereo" layers. DVD-A discs have an audio zone (AUDIO_TS) and optionally a video zone (VIDEO_TS). The concept of "multi-channel" and "stereo" is from SACE - and there the terminology is "area" not layer". A SACD can be a hybrid disc and have a CD quality 44.1/16 PCM audio "layer" in addition to the DSD layer (which can be mono, stereo up to 5.1 channel).
2) The concept of "layer" for DVD-AUDIO only comes into play IF the capacity needed to hold the zones (audio and video) is more than 4.38GB. DVD+R/DL media can be up to 8.54GB but this has NOTHING to do with multi-channel, stereo or even which zone (there is no defined split / assignment of video or audio to any specific "layer").
But being on a MAC the foo stuff probably won't be useful for me
Last I looked the foo_* is not available for a MAC - it also did not appear to implement the menus/navigation logic needed to deal with some of the complex DVD-Audio discs I've seen/created (some DVD-A discs are more complicated than many DVD-Video/movie discs.
Another previous poster mentioned "...except CP DVD-A". Not hard at all to rip those - definitely easier than an SACD (no PS3 needed for DVD-A
Once the image is available there's DVD-Explorer to get the PCM data to FLAC files (and then convert to DSD and create Scarletbook images - Audirvana+ can play those on a MAC Actually there's no need to do that since A+ can play multichannel FLAC files with ease https://audirvana.com)
