| Inside DVD-Video | Overview → |
This book is intended to be a complete collection of all the technical information that is publicly known about DVD-Video discs. The official DVD-Video specifications are only available to those willing to sign non-disclosure agreements and pay hefty licence fees; nevertheless, a lot of dedicated people have managed to reverse-engineer nearly all of the format, to the point where it has become possible to create Free Software authoring tools likeDVDAuthor and playback tools likeOgle andVLC.
This book is aimed at a technical audience; anybody working on software for authoring or playing DVD-Video, or otherwise messing about with DVD-Video, who needs to have a detailed understanding of the data layout.
The terminology and abbreviations used follow what seems to be standard when talking about DVD-Video. Thus, a “chapter” is referred to as a “Part of Title” and abbreviated “PTT” (though it is explained that this happens to mean a “chapter”). There are also various data structure field names that seem to be standard.
(Don’t do verbatim copying of these.)