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dvdSanta: The Most Easy to Use DVD Creating Tool
dvdSanta is an All-in-One software that lets you copy, create, convert and burn your DVD movies. It can copy 9GB double layer DVD movies into a 4.7GB DVD-R disc, can turn your photos into DVD movies with Hollywood style motion effects, can convert other video formats (avi, wmv, vob, asf, DivX, Mpeg,...) into DVD video, can transfer miniDV camcorder tapes directly to DVD video. >>> |
Knowledge
DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc. Due to wide spreading of this disk as a media for high-quality video distribution, DVD is often called Digital Video Disc. But most people just use the abbreviation - DVD without specifying what V is. A DVD disc and a CD disc look the same (both 120mm diameter). But that's the end of the "sameness". It's essentially a bigger (not in size, but capacity), faster CD that can hold cinema-like video, better-than-CD audio, and computer data. DVD aims to encompass home entertainment, computers, and business information with a single digital format, eventually replacing audio CD, videotape, laserdisc, CD-ROM, and perhaps even video game cartridges. DVD has widespread support from all major electronics companies, all major computer hardware companies, and all major movie and music studios. With this unprecedented support, DVD has become the most successful consumer electronics product of all time in less than three years of its introduction. The DVD technology provides a storage capacity that is at least 6 to 7 times greater that a CD. A greater than two hour long movie can be stored on a DVD disc, with very high quality video (two to three times greater than with a VHS tape). Added to this, is an equivalent increase in audio quality. 5.1 channel surround sound is available for home theater applications. In addition to the high quality audio and video experience, the DVD Format defines a way to have multiple languages on movies plus subtitles, again in multiple languages. Not all movies have this feature, but the capability for them to do so exists. A DVD disc can also be used for data storage for use in your computer, using a DVD-ROM drive. A DVD disc can store up to 17 Gigabytes (GB) of data (compare with about 650 Megabytes (MB) of CD-ROM storage). This greatly increased storage capacity is accomplished by using both sides of the media and by storing two layers of data on each side. A single layer DVD disc holds 4.7GB of data. For technical considerations a single sided, dual layer disc will hold 8.5GB of data. |
Pocket DVD Wizard
The Pocket DVD Wizard allows you to make backup copies of your personal DVD's, Mpeg, AVI and DivX video and then play them on your Windows Mobile™ Pocket PC. Imagine the possibilities! You can now record your favorite TV program with your DVD recorder and transfer it to your Pocket PC, then watch it later in the office, or on the beach! >>> |
| There are 4 standard formats. D10 and D18 are not
as common. A DVD-5 (single sided) DVD-Video disc will hold nominally 133 minutes of high quality MPEG-2 encoded video, together with three surround-sound audio channels and four subtitle channels. (Without video compression one DVD-5 disc would hold only about 3 minutes of video). A DVD-9 (dual layer) disc increases the playing time to 240 minutes of continuous video. A DVD-10 (double sided) disc will hold a nominal 133 minutes on each side (ie 266 minutes in all), but the disc needs to be turned over to play the other side. A DVD-18 (dual layer, doubled sided) disc can hold 240 minutes on each side and the disc also needs to be turned over to play the other side. Most DVD is D9 or D5 format. DVD-Cloner can clone D9 to just ONE DVDr/rw disc (D5 format) without evident losing. |