DVD Studio CD/DVD Recording System

DVD Studio is a DVD and CD recording system for Unix, and Linux (Download PDF - 66KB). The unique controller design of DVD Studio provides important benefits during the critical process of recording a DVD-R or CD-R disc. The DVD Studio controller optimizes the recording process, first by building a disc image internally - not on the host. This conserves the host's disc resources. Since this task is an I/O operation, it does not consume appreciable processing and memory resources.

Once the disc image is built, DVD Studio completely takes over the recording task; the DVD-R drive is on a separate SCSI chain and is controlled directly by DVD Studio. This eliminates all of the throughput variables associated with sending the data from the host and ensures that every disc you record will work.

You can continue to use the host computer as usual during the entire premastering and recording process. There is no need to operate in standalone mode or to shutdown daemons and background processes.

MakeDisc Premastering Software

DVD Studio includes MakeDisc software for creating CD and DVD discs. MakeDisc software installs on a workstation or server, and is available for virtually all open systems operating systems and platforms, including Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, IRIX, and Linux. MakeDisc features a Java graphical interface with drag and drop file selection.