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Industry Standards


Red Book - Audio CDs, (CD-DA)

Yellow Book - Data CDs

Green Book - CD-I (Compact Disc Interactive)

White Book - VideoCD (VCD)

 

Orange Book - Physical format for recordable CDs

Part I - CD-MO (Magneto-Optical)

Part II - CD-WO (Write-Once; includes "hybrid" spec for PhotoCD)

Part III - CD-RW (Rewriteable discs)

Blue Book - CD Extra


CD Extra
      A mixed mode CD, 1st is Data, 2nd is CD-DA (CD Plus)
      - Examples: Game CD, PlayStation CD, and Enhanced CD.

CD-UDF
      Industry-standard incremental packet-writing file system

CD-Text
      Philips' standard for encoding artist, album and track information on audio CDs

Hybrid CD
      Mac and PC format written on the same disc, 1st is MAC, 2nd is PC.

ISO-9660
      File layout standard (evolved from High Sierra format)

Rock Ridge
      Extensions allowing long filenames and UNIX-style symlinks

CD-ROM/XA
    Extended Architecture
      MODE-1
      Standard Yellow Book sectors
      MODE-2
      May be of form-1 or form-2
      FORM-1
      2048 bytes of data, with error correction, for data
      FORM-2
      2324 bytes of data, no error correction, for audio/video

 

 

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