Overview

DVD Studio is a Unix-based CD/DVD recording solution. DVD Studio uses Young Minds' independent controller architecture to manage the recording process. The independent controller offloads recording tasks from your host computer and as a result, recording consumes only minimal host resources. Key applications include: Archiving and distributing large data sets Developing and testing DVD-ROM and/or CD-ROM applications prior to replication Developing and testing multimedia content Archiving video and audio files Applications that require both CD and DVD recording capabilities DVD-R Capacity and Compatibility With 4.7 GB capacity per single-sided disc, DVD-R holds more data than any other non-proprietary optical disc format - up to seven times more than CD-R. DVD-R is the only storage technology that was designed with true DVD-ROM compatibility in mind. You can use any DVD-ROM drive to read back the discs you record with DVD Studio. DVD-R is also the only DVD storage technology that matches the capacity of a standard DVD-ROM disc on a single side. DVD-R is both durable and non-erasable, making it the only high capacity optical disc technology that can be relied on for archiving applications in legal, medical, and mission-critical applications. DVD Studio provides unmatched file-system compatibility features - including ISO 9660, Rock Ridge, and Joliet. In addition, DVD Studio allows you to preserve native file system attributes (for example, POSIX). DVD Studio is a DVD and CD recording system for Unix, and Linux. The unique controller design of DVD Studio provides important benefits during the critical process of recording a DVD-R or CD-R disc. The DVD Studio controller optimizes the recording process, first by building a disc image internally - not on the host. This conserves the host's disc resources. Since this task is an I/O operation, it does not consume appreciable processing and memory resources. Once the disc image is built, DVD Studio completely takes over the recording task; the DVD-R drive is on a separate SCSI chain and is controlled directly by DVD Studio. This eliminates all of the throughput variables associated with sending the data from the host and ensures that every disc you record will work. You can continue to use the host computer as usual during the entire premastering and recording process. There is no need to operate in standalone mode or to shutdown daemons and background processes. MakeDisc Premastering Software DVD Studio includes MakeDisc software for creating CD and DVD discs. MakeDisc software installs on a workstation or server, and is available for virtually all open systems operating systems and platforms, including Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, IRIX, and Linux. MakeDisc features a Java graphical interface with drag and drop file selection.