EE498 Audio Compact Disk - An Introduction
Illustrated class lecture notes that cover manufacturing of stamped CDs and details of laser pickup tracking. This is equally relevant to data CDs.
EE498 Audio Compact Disk - Writing and Reading the Data
Illustrated class lecture notes that cover frame-level data encoding (IEC908/Red Book) including interleaving, Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation (EFM), P and Q parity, subcode blocks, and uses of the p- and q-subcode channels.
EE498 CD-ROM - An Extension of the CD Audio Standard
Illustrated class lecture notes explain ISO/IEC 10149 (Yellow Book) data structures including sector layout and q-subcode extensions. These form the basis for all data CDs.
General CD-R archives
Archive of lots of questions and answers regarding CD-R and related technologies, both hardware and software.
High Density format
This document gives basic information on the High Density (HD) format developed by Sanyo.
How Stuff Works: CD-RW drive
Explantion of the technology of CD-RW drives, contains interactive flash animations.
How Stuff Works: Compact Disc
Detailed descriptions and animations explain the technology used in a compact disc.
How Stuff Works: DVDs
An illustrated explanation of the technology behind DVD media and players. It includes some animations.
An index of the ECMA standards
Lists all documents regarding the ECMA standards, including optical storage and data compression.
Jim Taylor's DVD FAQ
The official FAQ of the Internet DVD newsgroups. Its primary emphasis is on video, but there is a section on data DVDs that describes each format.
LP to CDR Tips
Page of notes describing the author's experience of transferring LPs to CDR over the last few years, with particular emphasis on the restoration of WAV files on hard disk.
Master DVD
This site provides a series of articles containing news, tutorials, and information related to recordable DVD. Covers both computer-based and TV-based DVD recorders.
Orange Forum
Home of the industry group promoting CD-R and CD-RW. Their site includes a basic tutorial illustrated with many cartoons.
OSTA - Optical Storage Technology Association
OSTA is an industry group promoting use of writable optical storage technology. This is the home of the Universal Disc Format (UDF) specification and other technology references.
PC Tech Guide: CD-R/CD-RW
The technology behind the recordable CD.
Philips Standards and Licensing - Standards
The source for obtaining many definitive CD specifications, including the Red Book (CD-DA), Yellow Book (CD-ROM), and Orange Book (CD-R/CD-RW).
Primer on CD-R
Site describing technologies, possible problems and solutions
Recording to CD: More than Meets the Ear
This article includes an extensive description of the physical structure and encoding of data on CDs. It covers the frame and block levels including EFM, interleaving and subcode channels.
Resources CD-R
This resource is intended to be parts of a primer on recordable Compact Disc formats.
Rm.com
Safety advice for CD ROM drives that develop small cracks.
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