CD-DVD Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format

∟What Is DVD-Video?

This section provides a quick summary about DVD-Video for movie DVD discs.

DVD-Video is a DVD format designed to store digital video (movies) on DVD. A DVD-Video disc has the following logo:

A typical movie DVD-Video disc will have 3 file systems on the disc at the same time:

• ISO 9660 File System - The original ISO standard developed for CD-ROM discs.
• UDF (Universal Disk Format) - ISO 13346 standard developed to replace ISO 9660.
• IFO File System - A partial file system providing a list of IFO and BUP files.

Here is an example of the file systems on the movie DVD "Big Fish":

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Format

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Players

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Rip Music

 WAV Audio File Format

 MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format

 Burning MP3 Music to Audio CD

 Windows Sound Recorder

 ISO 9660 Standard for Data CD

 Recording Data on CD

 VCD (Video CD) Standard

►DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format

 What Is DVD?

►What Is DVD-Video?

 DVD Video (Movie) File Directory Structure

 "Big Fish" - Movie DVD File Directory

 Playing Movie DVD with Windows Media Player

 Copying VOB Files - Copy Protection Error

 TOC (Table Of Contents) on CDs

 IsoBuster - A Nice CD GUI Tool

 MPlayer - The Movie Player

 vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files

 mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files

 CD/DVD - File Name Extension and Format Types

 References

 Full Version in PDF/ePUB

What Is DVD-Video? - Updated in 2021, by Dr. Herong Yang