Posted by Lance on 01/03/06 03:10

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
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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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