Endless Loop Holiday DVD

Kimberly wrote on 11/9/2010, 7:31 AM
Hello Everyone:

I've been thinking about making an Endless Loop DVD that shows 5-10 minutes of generic winter or holiday stuff (Snow, Christmas Lights, Fireplace Burning, etc.) and plays 5 hours of different music. Then I would put this on as background music for my holiday parties and the video would lend to the atmosphere without actually being something that guests would watch.

I can visualize how to make the endless loop on the Video piece. That seems pretty easy.

And I can visualize how to insert hours and hours of music.

But how do I make the music play continuously along with the endless play on the video without inserting the video a zillion times. I don't think we can get more than a couple of hours play on a DVD, and I don't want the music to repeat until I've played all 5 hours.

Any suggestions?

Cheers.

Kimberly

Comments

bStro wrote on 11/9/2010, 8:05 AM
You cannot make a DVD that will loop video and accompanying audio at different times (meaning, have the video loop but the music continue). The alternatives I can think of are:

a) Exactly what you said, insert the video "a zillion times" (probably just 20 or so)
b) Find more video
c) Do them separately -- have a DVD with the video that loops and a separate CD, DVD, or MP3 player for the music.

Keep in mind that if you do A or B, you would need to use a low bitrate for the video in order to fit as well as "hours and hours" of music on a DVD. Which means you won't want to use a video with a lot of fast motion (hint: a fireplace video would probably look awful ;). For a five hour DVD, you'd need to encode the video at around 1.8Mb/sec. Honestly, I'm not even sure DVDA will go that low.

If you have a separate device you can play the music on, I'd go with option C. Then just leave the DVD silent or mute whatever you play it on.

Rob

Kimberly wrote on 11/9/2010, 6:02 PM
Option C does sound like the best idea!

I was kinda thinkng it wasn't possible but needed confirmation. Thanks.