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DVD is an optical disc storage format

DVD (sometimes explained as "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs can be played in many types of players, including DVD players. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions.

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Node.js write a CD/DVD api?

Is there a way to write data on a CD/DVD with Node.js? I've tried to find information but I couldn't find alot beside Linux CD/DVD eject feature. Platform I'm using: Windows.
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How can I tell if an optical drive (not the disc) is a CD or DVD drive?

As stated in the title, I'm trying to determine if a drive DVD drive or a CD drive. Again, I am not asking about the media, I'm asking about the actual drive itself... the object pointed to by a DriveInfo class. I'm thinking the DriveInfo class…
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Get all DVD drives in Java

After getting a list of the drive roots, is there a cross-platform way in Java to check whether any of the drives is: A DVD drive ...that contains a disk? I want the user to be able to select a DVD for playing, and narrowing the options down to…
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How to programmatically differentiate between dvd or mini dvd disk inserted?

I need to get a capacity of inserted DVD disk. DeviceIoControl function call with IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY_EX parameter writes 4128768 bytes as a size of DVD what, obviously, is wrong result. Code was taken from…
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How can I detect if CDRom is a DVD on Linux

I'm looking to create a function in C++ running on Linux that returns true if the CDRom media is a DVD and false if its anything else (e.g. Audio CD). I have been using ioctl with linux/cdrom.h. I tried using the DVD_READ_STRUCT but it always…
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DVD burning API for Java

I'm looking for an API in Java to burn DVDs. I can't find anything on Google, so maybe I'm more lucky here... :-)
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Is there a way to discern if a drive is a dvd/cd/blueray drive without a disc inside?

After looking at this question here: Get all DVD drives in Java It seems to me that with JAVA 7 there is a way to discern between hard drives and dvd/cd drives when there is cd/dvd inside the drive. But that one method fails if the drive is…
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Open CD/DVD door with a Windows API call?

How do I open the CD/DVD door with a Windows API call?
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How to tell if a given path is mounted removable media in Mac OS X?

Given a path, in Mac OS X, is there a way to tell that it is a mounted CD or DVD, as opposed to a regular directory, a regular file, or mounted DMG or other mountable file type? Specifically I would like to know if it is a CD or DVD when a user…
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_taccess() function used for DVD-ROM in WinXP and Win7

I've got a problem when using _taccess() function: int nAccess = _taccess("x:", 06); x is my DVD-ROM. This function returns different result in WinXP and Win7: in WinXP, the function returns -1, which indicates it is NOT writable. But in Win7, the…
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connecting dvd drive to an android device

I am developing an android application for tablet in which i need to connect external cd drive and read the contents from the cd and display it in my app. I am having a Asus external DVD RW I tried to connect it in my android tablet using USB port.…
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UDF Filesystem reading, bluray metadata partition, libdvdread with ISO images

So this might be a little too specific, and too much for anyone to read, for anyone to be able to help. But maybe there is someone out there who has done this before. I am currently using the trusty, but not very accurate, libdvdread library to…
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Folder.CopyHere() from IShellDispatch silently fails to unpack most of a Zip file, but only if the file is on a DVD

My application (the Endless OS installer for Windows) uses methods on IShellDispatch (provided by Shell32.dll), to extract a Zip file (example). In various modes of operation, this file may be downloaded from the internet to a fixed disk; on an…
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Strategies for programmatically controlling a commercial DVD player

If you were tasked with operating a commercial DVD player from a computer program, how would you do it? My company sells a product that does exactly that. We have a couple of different approaches, and they both have major issues: Get an IR…
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How to Put Access Table Data on Optical Media?

I have a college capstone project that involves creating an Access database table of movies and putting that data on an optical disk. My proposed solution is to export the table in some form (that I haven't figured out) and use a Web page on the…
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