DVD-Video
A video format for displaying full-length digital movies. A number of manufacturers are just beginning to sell DVD-Video players, which attach to a television just like a videocassette player. Unlike DVD-ROMs, the Digital-Video format includes a Content Scrambling System (CSS) to prevent users from copying discs. This means that today’s DVD-ROM players cannot play DVD-Video discs without a software or hardware upgrade to decode the encrypted discs.
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- DVD Video file system
DVD-Video discs use UDF with all required data specified by UDF and ISO 13346 to allow playing in computer systems. The DVD-Video files must be no larger than 1 GB in size and be recorded as a single extent in one continuous sequence. The first directory on the disc must be the VIDEO_TS directory containing […]
- DVD file system
See Universal Disk Format (UDF). See DVD Video file system.
- DVD authoring
The term used to describe the process of creating a DVD. Authoring includes tasks such as creating the DVD navigation structure, laying out the assets, designing the DVD menus, final production and more.
- DVD navigation data
DVD-Video offers five different types of navigation data that provides efficient interaction for users, which include the following: Video Manager Information (VMGI) Video Title Set Information (VTSI) Program Chain Information (PGCI) Presentation Control Information (PCI) Data Search Information (DSI)
- DVD+R
Short for DVD+Recordable, a recordable DVD format similar to CD-R. A DVD+R can only record data once and then the data becomes permanent on the disc. The disc can not be recorded onto a second time. DVD+R and DVD+RW formats are supported by Philips, Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Ricoh, Yamaha and others. For comparison and contrast, […]