What Is DVD-Video?

This section provides a quick summary about DVD-Video for movie DVD discs.

DVD-Video is a DVD format designed to store digital video (movies) on DVD. A DVD-Video disc has the following logo:

DVD-Video Logo
DVD-Video Logo

A typical movie DVD-Video disc will have 3 file systems on the disc at the same time:

Here is an example of the file systems on the movie DVD "Big Fish":

DVD Track Layout by IsoBuster
DVD Track Layout by IsoBuster

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 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

 WAV Audio File Format

 MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format

 Burning MP3 Music to Audio CD

 Windows Sound Recorder

 ISO 9660 Standard for Data CD

 Recording Data on CD

 VCD (Video CD) Standard

DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format

 What Is DVD?

What Is DVD-Video?

 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

 MPlayer - The Movie Player

 vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files

 mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files

 CD/DVD - File Name Extension and Format Types

 References

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