DVD authoring describes the process of creating a
DVD video that can be played on a
DVD player. DVD authoring software must conform to the
specifications set by the
DVD Forum group in
1995. The specifications are complicated due to the number of companies that were involved in creating them.Strictly speaking, DVD authoring is a separate process from
MPEG encoding, but most modern DVD authoring software have a built-in encoder (though separate encoders are still used when better quality or finer control over compression settings is required).Most authoring applications are for video DVDs only; they do not support the creation of
DVD-Audio discs.
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