Lets Talk About DVD9 or Dual Layer DVD

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Do you ever find yourself with too much to say and not enough breath?

In today’s fast paced digital world often times projects grow and the snowball effect is unavoidable.

A product manual and instructional video that was slated to be 90 minutes has ballooned into a full two hour production.

Fret not my friends Dual-layer DVD sometimes referred to as DVD9 is here to help:

Dual-layer recording (sometimes also known as double-layer recording) allows DVD-R and DVD+R discs to store significantly more data—up to 8.5 gigabytes per disc, compared with 4.7 gigabytes for single-layer discs…Dual-layer recording (sometimes also known as double-layer recording) allows DVD-R and DVD+R discs to store significantly more data—up to 8.5 gigabytes per disc, compared with 4.7 gigabytes for single-layer discs…DVD recordable discs supporting this technology are backward-compatible…

-from wikipedia

Whats all this mean to me, the guy with an ever growing DVD duplication project?

Basically it means that instead of 1 hr 30 minutes of DVD resolution – we can duplicate  up to three hours of your video onto a single DVD. This means instead of paying more for DVD duplication and printing of an additional disc, dual disc packaging and requiring your customers to get up and change the disc – you can save money on production, packaging all while keeping your customers happy.

Call us today to discuss your CD or DVD duplication and printing projects and see if Dual Layer or DVD9 is the right solution for you.

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DVD Styler

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DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played practically on any standalone DVD player, but also creation of individually designed DVD menus. It is Open Source Software and is completely free.
  • creation and burning DVD video with interactive menus
  • provides several templates for DVD menus v1.8.0
  • support of AVI, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WMV and other file formats
  • support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats
  • support of multi-core processor
  • allows using MPEG and VOB files without reencoding, see FAQ
  • allows put files with different audio/video format on one DVD (support of titleset)
  • user-friendly interface with support of drag & drop
  • flexible menu creation on the basis of scalable vector graphic
  • import of image file for background
  • placing of buttons, text, images and other graphic objects anywhere on the menu screen
  • changing the font/color and other parameters of buttons and graphic object
  • scaling of buttons and graphic objects
  • coping of any menu object or whole menu
  • dvd scripting

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BURN

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There are a lot of ways to approach burning discs. Burn keeps it simple, but still offers a lot of advanced options.

Keep your files safe and share them.

Burn your files to a disc so you can access them later on. Choose different filesystems so you can share your files with people with different operating systems.

Change advanced settings like, file permissions, the disc icon, file dates and more on the fly in Burns inspector.

Let the music be with you.

Create standard Audio-CD discs with ease. Just drop your audio files in Burns audio list. Want more music on your disc, Burn can create MP3 discs. More and more players support these discs. Higher quality, no problem, Burn can create DVD-Audio discs, which can contain more and higher quality files.

Burn offers advanced options like CD-Text and mp3 tag editing to personalize your disc.

Share your movies.

Made your own movies and want to share them with family and friends? No problem. Burn can create a wide range of video discs. From VideoCD to DVD-Video discs. And DivX discs to fit more of your videos on a disc.

To personalize your DVD-Video disc, burn can create interactive menus. Choose a theme in Burn or create your own.

1 + 1 makes 2.

Do you already have discs you like to reproduce? Don’t worry, DiscBurn can help you. We can copy discs or use disk images to recreate your discs.

Converting.

Forget worrying about convertion. Burn will take your video and audio files and turns them in the right format.
In the preferences you can set the options for quality and size.

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InfraRecorder

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InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

InfraRecorder is released under GPL version 3.

Features

  • Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
  • Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
  • Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
  • Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
  • Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
  • Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
  • Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
  • Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
  • Display disc information.
  • Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

DVD Flick

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DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles as well as a menu for easier navigation.

Features

  • Burn near any video file to DVD
  • Support for over 45 file formats
  • Support for over 60 video codecs
  • Support for over 40 audio codecs
  • Easily add a menu
  • Add your own subtitles
  • Easy to use interface
  • Burn your project to disc after encoding
  • Completely free without any adware, spyware or limitations

DVD Scribe

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This is the DVDScribe project (“dvdscribe”)

This project was registered on SourceForge.net on Aug 12, 2008, and is described by the project team as follows:

DVDScribe is a very simple LightScribe application that allows you to burn images on your LightScribe discs. This application is based on the LightScribe public SDK.

Get the source code:

Source code for this project may be available as downloads or through one of the SCM repositories used by the project, as accessible from the project develop page.

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DVD audio Tools

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What is DVD-Audio?

DVD-Audio is a standard for storing uncompressed high quality stereo or multi-channel audio content on a standard DVD disk. Supported sampling frequencies range from 44.1KHz (the Red-Book CD Audio standard) up to 192KHz, with sampling depths of 16, 20 or 24 bits.

A single DVD can contain both DVD-Audio content (in the AUDIO_TS directory) and DVD-Video content (in the VIDEO_TS directory). Most DVD players only recognise and playback the VIDEO_TS content, but an increasing number of dual-format players can play the contents of the AUDIO_TS as well. Such players will display the DVD-Audio logo.

A single DVD-Audio disk is referred to as an Album. An Album can consist of up to 9 Groups, each containing up to 99 Tracks. In addition, the contents of the AUDIO_TS directory can contain references to objects in the VIDEO_TS directory (but not vice-versa).

About DVD audio Tools

This project aims to provide audio enthusiasts with a set of free software tools to enable the authoring of DVD-Audio disks compliant with hardware DVD-Audio players, plus a software player for such disks.

IMPORTANT NOTE: In addition to uncompressed audio, the DVD-Audio standard supports a proprietary lossless compression scheme called Meridian Lossless Packing and various methods of encrypting and watermarking the content. This project does not and will not deal with those parts of the standard and will therefore never be able to playback commercially produced DVD-Audio disks.

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