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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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What is the best way to archive a data CD/DVD in python?

I have to archive a large amount of data off of CDs and DVDs, and I thought it was an interesting problem that people might have useful input on. Here's the setup: The script will be running on multiple boxes on multiple platforms, so I thought…
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How Is SecuROM Physically Implemented?

I'm reading various articles about this topic because I'm really curious on how SecuROM is implemented at physical level on optical supports, not at all a "How to crack SecuROM" question, just a "How is it made" one. Source A unique, uncopyable…
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Float an NSView above a window being used by DVDPlayback framework

I am trying to write a simple DVD player using Mac OS X's DVDPlayback.framework. I can get the DVD to play within a window, but ultimately I want this to run as a full-screen app. I'm having difficulty adding a sub-view to display media controls…
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Best way to update multi-gigabyte program (DVD fulfillment? Updater software?)

Two years ago, we shipped a multi-gigabyte Windows application, with lots of video files. Now we're looking to release a significant update, with approximately 1 gigabyte of new and changed data. We're currently looking at DVD fulfillment houses…
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How to autorun a piece of software from a CD/DVD on Windows 7?

I want my software to run automatically from a CD/DVD with no user interaction whenever the user puts the CD/DVD into the drive. As far as I know autorun should still work with Windows 7, they just forbid it for USB drives. But how? Let's say I want…
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Unique DVD info?

I was wondering, is there some type of disc ID i can use to search in my database to see if that disc is has been scanned or not? All disc were created by me typically burnt on windows. -edit- I could compare write time and volume label to see if…
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Override DVD system in c#

I've been wanting to write my own version of DVD override software for some time now. I really want it to behave like AnyDVD, except much less overhead and not near as many options. Basically I want to be able to insert a DVD on my Media Center and…
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FFmpeg: A few errors including invalid frame size and incomplete frame

I use this ffmpeg command to take clips from a large VOB files that is on a DVD: ffmpeg.exe -i E:\VTS_02_2.vob -ss 00:00:57 -t 00:16:15 vids\VTS_02_2.vob It worked first for a VOB file but then I got these errors: c:\ffmpeg>ffmpeg.exe -i…
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Why is the Firefox webkitdirectory implementation so slow reading from DVD/CD?

Im working on a file upload service using HTML5. In the use case the user wants to upload whole directory, which he receives in form of a CD/DVD. Reading directories is possible in Chrome using the webkitdirectory | mozwebkitdirectory |…
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Get the serial number of the volume udf cd / dvd disk?

I'm writing a program in linux which counts the serial number (xxxx-xxxx) of the volume of the CD in Windows 7. My program correctly determines the serial number of the volume on disks with the filesystems iso9660 and joilet. But how to define a…
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Copy and read files from dvd and CD C#

I am trying to use the following code in my project. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/imapi2.aspx However, When I run the application and click on "Detect Media" it says "Media not supported". Can someone please help me with this issue. Why…
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CD/DVD Boot Sector

Can anyone explains how CD/DVD Boot Sector works to me? I've extracted some boot sectors from ISO images and found out that some of them are 6 sectors long and some are 8. I tried to look it up but no results. What is the minimum(maximum) length of…
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Random seek on CD-ROM drive

This works on Linux, but not (as I would like) on FreeBSD: I wish to exercise my CD-ROM drive, to keep the dust off the lens. On Linux I run (as root) a C program I wrote which seeks back and forth, reading a single block each time as it goes. On…
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What's the algorithm for generating the time map (VTS_TMAP) data for a DVD's IFO file?

I'm looking to create an IFO file for a VOB so that I can produce a video DVD. I have the specifications for the contents of the VTS_01_1.IFO file however I'm not sure on how to generate the time map data for the VTS_TMAP section. I think the…
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Over-current issue on USB port - ignore_oc flag not working

I have connected Lenovo's DVD RW to my linux system (kernel - 2.6.34). The kernel is disconnecting the writer with overcurrent issue. kern.log - Feb 9 14:09:53 base0-0-0-11-0-11-1 kernel: hub 2-1:1.0: over-current change on port 1 I turned on…
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