[vox-tech] dvd and strange filenames

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Apr 21 17:14:03 PDT 2005


Quoting Henry House (hajhouse at houseag.com):

> The previous comes from my knowledge of burning CDs. I thoght that DVDs used
> a more-recently introduced filesystem, not ISO9660, that addressed the
> limitations of ISO9660?

DVDs can have either of two filesystems, ISO9660 (which of course is
also used on CDs) or the more-recent UDF = Universal Disk Format.  All
movie DVDs come as AV files on UDF, for example.




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