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Posted by Biz on 01/03/06 18:37
The DVD spec is available in its entirety for about $50,000US....
"Don" <phoney.email@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks! I'll chase it up.
>
> BTW, that seems to be one of the problems. There are bits of
> information here and there but no definitive document.
>
> I'm a bit surprised about this because I would've though this to be a
> standard which is in the public domain
>
> Don.
>
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:10:41 GMT, Lance <lltbhill@link_earth.net>
> wrote:
>
> >This might help, but only parts of it are online (the author wants to
> >sell the rest):
> >http://www.dvd-replica.com/DVD/productinfo.php
> >
> >Lance
> >*****
> >
> >Don thought carefully and wrote on 1/2/2006 6:54 PM:
> >> I'm looking for definitive and current technical documentation (a
> >> White Paper?) on DVD data structure/layout. Not just video files but
> >> the underlying structures.
> >>
> >> Specifically:
> >> - How much space does a file really occupy on a DVD i.e is each file
> >> rounded up to a sector (2048 bytes) or an ECC block (32KB)?
> >> - What's the layout of lead-in and lead-out?
> >> - What's the layout of a TOC?
> >> - How it all fits together... etc.
> >>
> >> I tried googling but get swamped with either superficial hardware info
> >> or how to defeat various copy protection schemes... :-/
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
> >>
> >> Don.
>
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