Patent ID: 7103261

Claim:
A method of encoding to an MPEG stream and encoding to CD media, the CD media compliant with White Book ISO 9660 2.0 format, having a table of contents, wherein upon playback preventing audio switching noise and popping, associated with auto repeat operations of playback CD devices, caused by not detecting the true end points associated with conventionally encoded CDs, during playback in Red Book compliant players, the encoding method comprising the steps of: receiving and encoding a source of at least audio and video content data, authoring the conventional cue sheet by modifying the index to point at track one index 00, and adding ten seconds of WAV file data having 0 db or silence appended to the beginning of the encoded original WAV file and storing the appended WAV file on the CD media, upon reproduction of the CD media is accomplished without interrupting play time of the CD media data track one and which is limited to 4 seconds of audio playback and reproduction of the CD media in DVD players allow playback control operations of all files contained in the data track one, without the utilization of the table of contents track above one, to do so.