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Understanding DVD-Audio
Overview
The DVD-Audio specification has been designed to replace CD-Audio as the primary carrier of prerecorded music for the record industry. While the home video and record industries are similar in many respects, each business has its own unique requirements for distribution media. Like DVD-Video, DVD-Audio is built on the foundation of DVD-ROM. So a DVD-Audio disc is actually a DVD-ROM disc that includes a zone of material supported by the DVD-Audio specification (and may optionally contain a zone of DVD-Video material as well). These zones are essentially directories or folders within the UDF file system.
The DVD-Audio specification incorporates many of the same DVD-Video navigational and architectural features, but it also includes several new interactive and playback features, such as still graphics slide shows. And it supports even higher audio fidelity and more flexible multi-channel playback options than DVD-Video. Thus, while the two
formats are closely related, DVD-Audio extends DVD-Video to create a truly distinct product tailored for audio-centric applications. For those intending to create DVD-Audio titles, this paper will clarify the functional and technical similarities and differences between the new DVD-Audio format and it’s established DVD-Video cousin.
| Publisher | Sonic | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 24 |
| Format | White Papers | ||
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