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Posted by Don on 01/03/06 21:26
Or you can download it all for free from:
www.ecma-international.org
It took me a while but I answered my own question. I was just sure
that this is in the public domain.
Don.
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:37:11 GMT, "Biz" <spamoff@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>The DVD spec is available in its entirety for about $50,000US....
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>"Don" <phoney.email@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:7ovkr110dl6phgsml0adu5urg7a6l4o35f@4ax.com...
>> 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.
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>> I'm a bit surprised about this because I would've though this to be a
>> standard which is in the public domain
>>
>> Don.
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>> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:10:41 GMT, Lance <lltbhill@link_earth.net>
>> wrote:
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>> >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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