Specification
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Orange Book
The Orange Book is a physical format of recordable CD announced in 1989 by Philips
and Sony. The Orange Book describes CD-MO in part-I and CD-R in part-II. Later on
part-II was updated. In 1994, version-II was announced for the CD-ROM and its double
speed type. In 1996, the standards for phase change optical disc; rewritable CD (CD-RW)
was added as part-III.
Photo-CD
A CD format and system devised by Eastman Kodak to record digitized photograph data.
Rainbow Books
The collection of standards which define the different types of CDs. Through these
standards, it has been achieved that CDs can be read and processed by as many
devices and operating systems of the different manufacturers as possible.
Red Book
A book setting the standards for the Compact Disc physical format and audio recording
methods, published by Philips and Sony in 1981.
Session
An inter-related writing procedure is defined as a session. A session consists of the Lead
In area, the data area, and the Lead Out area. A CD can be written with several sessions.
This is then called a multi-session CD, in contrast to a single-session CD that only
contains one session. A silver CD generally consists of one session.
TOC
Contents of the Lead-in, this contains the addresses of all the tracks on the CD.
Track
In an Audio-CD, one track corresponds to one piece of music. With a CD-ROM, one
track contains computer data and it may have any number of files and folders.
UDF
UDF is short for Universal Disc Format, another file layout standard for CDROM. The
UDF format can use in CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD by Packet writing method, which would
not cause "Buffer Under-Run" and can be compatible with ISO9660.The advantage of
UDF is provided similar function like hard disk.
Video CD
A CD-ROM storing MPEG-1-compressed moving pictures, still pictures, audio sounds
etc.
Yellow Book
A book of CD-ROM standards published by Philips and Sony in 1985.
