DVD-VR - Feature Overview

Feature Overview

The DVD-VR specification allows implementing the following main features:

• Video recording to DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM. Newer versions of the standard have been extended to also allow recording to DVD-R Dual Layer media.
• Up to 99 titles per disc.
• Multiple play lists defining different playback-paths of the recorded content.
• Adding chapters and bookmarks to a recording.
• Support Main/Sub language for recording bilingual broadcasting.
• Frame-accurate editing of recorded content: Title split, title delete, partial title delete.
• Fragmented recording: All unused space on the disc may be randomly added to new recordings. This is the opposite of the tape-model used by DVD+VR recorders.
• Video and data files (such as digital pictures, or MP3 files) may be mixed on a single disc.
• Multiple recording modes, up to 10.08 megabit per second (DVD-Video quality).
• Title and disc protection.
• 16:9 and 4:3 material may be mixed within a single file with the display switching correctly (where supported).

DVD-VR recorded media are not DVD-Video compliant, and will not play back in all DVD players. Some more recent DVD players, and also the Sony PlayStation 2, allow playback of discs that have been recorded with the DVD-VR format.