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Old 28th December 2009   #15
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Originally Posted by rainy-taxi View Post
You can also get Diskwelder bronze and make a dvd-a for that money (though I believe there are also free tools that do the same. There is a dvd-a project on sourceforge and I believe that Foobar and WinDVD support playback of dvd-a on windows. VLC has some experimental playback support too in some of their nightlies).
DVDA is certainly the superior form to use where you can be sure of player support.
VLC does indeed have AOB support in build 1.10 & later (as you say, the daily builds) and earlier builds of WinDVD (6 Platinum is okay but flaky, 7 is hobbled in later versions but okay in earlier, PowerDVD is supposed to work okay-ish) but support in soft players is limited right now.
With VLC getting into the game, things are looking up though as this is truly cross platform too.

DW Bronze is limited to 5.1 at 24/48 - no MLP lossless support, and 24/96 in 5.1 exceeds the available bitrate of the format
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