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Niconico / audio gaps - An official response from Minnetonka Audio

Following the various questions from Niconico (see link) and others about "audio gaps" in DVD-A authored using discWelder Steel, I had offered Minnetonka to come over and respond.
I received the following response from Minnetonka. Part of it is a response to Niconico's criticism on audio gaps, but it contains some interesting information about the technical reason for audio gaps in DVD-Audio, so I'll post it as a new message.
I wish all audio software companies had such a good customer service.

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Hi Eric,
Sorry it took awhile to respond, we're a bit too busy here at the moment...
To answer the question in your forum about playback gaps in DVD-Audio
discs, Mr. "niconico" needs to understand the DVD-A specification. The
DVD-A player loads the ASVs (still images) for each track before it plays
the track. Some players are faster than others, which is why some have a
smaller gap. There are three ways around this problem:
1) Make the entire DVD-A as a single MLP encode, then use track pointers to
make the separate "Tracks";
2) Turn off the ASV loading (the "slides" or stills) in Sonic Solutions'
DVD-A Creator
3) Preload the ASVs, which is what discWelder CHROME does.
SO - the problem is not in discWelder STEEL (which doesn't even support
ASVs), or ANY authoring program - the problem is in the DVD-A player
specification.
STEEL is still a terrific bargain, and if Mr. "niconico" wishes to upgrade
to CHROME from a registered copy of STEEL, have him contact us - we can do
that for him (he won't lose any money in the transaction).
Thanks and best wishes,
John
John Calder
Director of Marketing
Minnetonka Audio Software
17113 Minnetonka Blvd. Suite 300
Minnetonka, MN 55345
www.minnetonkaaudio.com
www.surcode.com
www.discwelder.com
"The First Affordable DVD-A Tools"

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Topic - Niconico / audio gaps - An official response from Minnetonka Audio - Eric LeRouge 17:41:11 04/03/03 (4)

Re: Niconico / audio gaps - An official response from Minnetonka Audio - niconico 02:30:55 04/07/03 (3)

DVD-Audio authoring issues: A thorough response from Minnetonka - Eric LeRouge 14:11:05 04/09/03 (2)

I think thats called an infomercial - SnaggS 17:43:07 04/09/03 (1)

Re: I think that's called a thorough response to a customer - Eric LeRouge 06:39:33 04/10/03 (0)

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