Chapter 1

142 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD
• Stomp (www.stompinc.com, retail distributor for certain Sonic
products)
• RecordNow and MaxRecordNow MAX Platinum. CD and DVD burning
software for music, photos, and video. Windows. $50 and $80.
• Backup MyPC and Simple Backup. Windows file backup software
for recordable DVD and CD.
• Veritas (acquired Prassi)
Veritas Desktop and Mobile Division was acquired by Sonic in November
2002. Veritas products such as RecordNow and Drive Letter Access are
now from Sonic, distributed by Stomp.
• Young Minds (www.ymi.com)
• DVD Studio and MakeDisc for DVD. DVD formatting software for
Windows NT and Unix. Writes to DVD-R.
Features to Look for in DVD Formatters:
• Support for UDF file system, including MicroUDF (UDF 1.02 Appendix
6.9) for DVD-Video and DVD-Audio zones.
• Support for UDF bridge format, which stores both UDF and ISO-9660
file systems on the disc.
• Ability to recognize VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories (containing
IFO, VOB, and AOB files) and place them contiguously at the physical
beginning of the disc for compatibility with DVD-Video players. Placement
of directory entries in the first UDF file descriptor is also needed
for compatibility with certain deficient consumer players.
• Support for long filenames in Windows (Joliet format recommended).
• Full equivalence between UDF and Joliet (ISO-9660) filenames. (Windows
NT 4.0 and Windows 98 read Joliet filenames; Mac OS 8.1�,
Windows 98, and Windows 2000 read UDF filenames. MS-DOS and
Windows 95 and earlier read ISO-9660 filenames. Mac OS 8.0 and
earlier read HFS or ISO-9660 filenames.)
• Proper truncation and translation of ISO-9660 filenames to 8.3 format
for discs intended for use with MS-DOS and certain other OSs.
• Support for Mac OS file information within the UDF file system (for use
with Mac OS 8.1 and later).
• Support for Mac OS HFS file system if icons and other file information
is needed for Mac OS versions earlier than 8.1.