CD-DVD Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.23, by Dr. Herong Yang
What Is DVD?
This section provides a quick summary about DVD (Digital Video Disc).
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is the next generation of optical disc storage media format. A DVD has the same physical dimensions as a normal CD. But a DVD can store more than 6 times of data comparing to a normal CD.
DVDs are produced in two physical sizes: 120 mm, 12 cm or 4.72 inches and 80 mm, 8cm or 3.15 inches.
Digital data may be recorded on a DVD in 4 different ways resulting different capacities:
DVD can be used to store data, audio, or video data with different file directory structures. But they all share the same common formatting characteristics:
One popular type of DVD is called DVD-Video, which is to store high quality video data, movies. See next section for details.
Another type of DVD is called DVD-Audio, which is to store high quality audio data, music and songs.
Table of Contents
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
MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format
►DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format
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
vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files
mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files