liberalz said:
1. Can standard dvd players play WAV formats?
A dvd player will not play a data disc that has WAV files but many newer players have built-in MP3 and WMA decoders and will play a data disc with files in those formats.
2. Have you guys tried converting CDA formats to WAV, if so was there any difference in quality.
CDA is not an audio file format - it's more like an index file with information about tracks on a CD. You cannot play a .cda file without the disc it references inserted into the cd drive.
The data on a CD is PCM. A WAV file is PCM too with additional information pre-pended to the file (things like bit depth, sample rate, number of channels, length of the file, etc). 'Ripping' a CD (technically Digital Audio Extraction) is how you 'convert' a cd track to WAV. The track is read, the header info is calculated, and the new file is saved on your hard disk. There will be no difference in quality - if the drive is accurate, the wav file will be exactly the same as the data on the disc.
3. Through windows Media Player, there seems to way of enhancing the quality, by changing the bit rate etc, anyone tried....
Changing the bit rate doesn't necessarily improve anything. The process is upsampling and is sophisticated guessing (interpolation) to create samples that were not originally present. A good upsampling implementation may alter the sound for the better but you will be hard pressed to hear any significant difference.
