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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 like [http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ DVDAuthor] and playback tools like [http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Ogle] and [http://www.videolan.org/ VLC].

==Target Audience==
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.

==Terminology==
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.

==References==
===Documents===
(Don’t do verbatim copying of these.)
* A useful overview of DVD-Video data structures is available at [http://www.mpucoder.com/DVD/ mpucoder.com]. Subsets of this (differing in some details) are also available at [http://dvdnav.mplayerhq.hu/dvdinfo/ MPlayerHQ] and [http://dvd.sourceforge.net/dvdinfo/ SourceForge].
* Bunch of old draft MPEG-related specs [http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece796/documents/ here].
* [http://dvdauthor.com/tech01.htm Publishing in the Age of DVD]

===Source Code===
* [http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Ogle] is a now-moribund effort at a DVD-Video player, which is still useful as a reference for some subtle points, and also for testing authoring output.
* [http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ DVDAuthor] is an open-source authoring tool which has accumulated some useful information in its source code.
* [http://ffmpeg.org/ FFmpeg] knows all the details of generating DVD-Video-compliant MPEG files.

===See Also===
* The [[w:DVD-Video|Wikipedia article]]
* [http://dvds.beandog.org/doku.php Multimedia info] collected by Steve Dibb.

==Table of Contents==
* [[/Overview|Overview]]
* [[/Directory Structure|Directory Structure]]
* [[/MPEG Format|MPEG Format]]
* [[/IFO Files|IFO Files]]
* [[/Subpicture Streams|Subpicture Streams]]
* [[/NAV PACKs|NAV PACKs]]
* [[/Interaction Machine|The Interaction Machine]]
** [[/Instruction Set Details|Instruction Set Details]]
* [[/Limits|Summary of Specification Limits]]
* [[/Glossary|Glossary]]

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