[MacDV] Re: New to list - suggestions invited, please!

[Jim Heid]

On 7/28/03 3:38 PM, "Macintosh Digital Video List"
<MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:02:30 -0700
> From: Patty Winter <patty1 at sonic.net>
> Message-Id: <200307282102.h6SL2UlL012504 at bolt.sonic.net>
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: New to list - suggestions invited, please!

> I read the descriptions of the DataLife "authoring" and "general use"
> discs on that page, and I don't understand the difference. The authoring
> discs only have 3.95GB capacity, and the general use disks say that you
> can "author and encode" onto them. The authoring disks can be run through
> an ink-jet printer, but that seems like a feature related to distrubtion
> rather than authoring. Erica, Steven, someone--what's an authoring disc?

The "authoring" format is for use with specialized authoring drives that not
many folks have. The authoring format supports additional data structures
that some professional DVD developers use. The DVD-R General format that
dominates these days does not support these additional structures.

Gory technical details available here:

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Pioneer/Files/DVDR_whitepaper.pdf

Jim

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Jim Heid
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