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- DTS - stand for Digital Theater Systems Digital Sound and is a product of DTS, Inc.
- DRM - stands for Digital Rights Management. more...
- Digital Video (DV) - DV is the format used by many digital camcorders, usually on Mini DV cassettes.
- DV Type-1 Method The native DV interleaved stream that is produced and consumed in I/O with a DV device contains DV compressed video and pulse code modulated (PCM) audio data.
- DV Type-2 Method Interleaved DV data can also be split into a single video stream and one to four audio streams within an AVI file.
- Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) - An optical storage device that holds 4.7 to 17 GB of data.
- DivX - DivX was developed by DivX, Inc., to compress a great deal of video content into relatively small files and still retain reasonably good image quality when played back. DivX is based on MPEG-4, and is a popular choice for sending video files over the Internet.
- DVD-5 - DVD-5 is a single sided single layer DVD that stores up to about 4.7 GB = 4 700 000 000 bytes and that is 4.38 computer GigaBytes where 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes(4 700 000 000B/1024 = about 4 589 843KB/1024 = about 4485MB/1024 = about 4.38GB) . Video DVD, DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W supports this format. Often referred to as "single sided, single layer".
- DVD-9 - DVD-9 is a single sided dual layer DVD which can fit up to 8.5 GB or 7.95 computer GB which many commercial video DVDs are using today (a DVD-9 is basically two pressed plastic DVD-5s pressed together, they are not burned). Video DVD supports this format but DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W does not support this format.
- DVD-10 - DVD-10 is a double sided single layer DVD. Video DVD, DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W support this format. Effectively this means that DVD-10 is a dual-sided DVD-5 and can hold 8.75 gigabytes of data with 4.38 gigabytes on each side. Two-sided discs need to be flipped over in order to access the other data side. Unfortunately many blank DVD media advertisers mislead customers to believe that these discs are actually blank DVD-9 discs in hope that they could copy their dual-layer discs directly to blank discs.
- DVD-18 - DVD-18 is a double sided dual layer DVD which can fit up to 17 GB or 15.9 computer GB which some commercial video DVDs are using today (a DVD-18 is basically four pressed plastic DVD-5s pressed together, they are not burned). Video DVD supports this format but DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W does not support this format.
- DVD-Audio - DVD-Audio is music disc, aimed to replace regular audio CD within next few years. more...
- DVD-MP3 - This type of disc is created when MP3 audio files are burned on a DVDR/W disc. Some DVD Players can play these discs, but many so far cannot.
- D-VHS - DVHS is a digital recording and playback format for High Definition material. It's based on the existing 1/2" VHS-sized cassettes.
- encoding - the process of converting any audio format to MP3.
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