Research Report:

Recommendations For Dig Video DVD Development

DataSpheric for Free Media LLC

SPECIAL V1.08

Trevor Osgood 2004

DataSpheric was asked if and how a company called Dig Video should produce their flagship CDROM product as a DVD. This product is a web-enabled music video presentation medium which is a well known field. With DVD we quickly verged into a relatively new field of web-enabled or i-DVD.

Web-enabled or i-DVD is a marketing medium which we've just begun to scratch the surface of. I won't labor the radical new reach it puts in the hands of marketers here as this paper is about production: it addresses the essential things that you need to know if you are considering producing them yourself.

New tools put this capability in the hands of just about everyone.

This paper is intended to expertize technologists who are minimally familiar with multimedia production as well as tell key decision makers exactly what direction to take. It covers the entire technology, all possible solutions as well as possible future solutions, major pitfalls and workarounds, the works. It also has first-hand input from the world's five foremost authorities on the subject.

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Contents

1. The assignment
2. The research process
3. Props
4. To begin
5. The playing field
6. Physical spec evolution
7. Soft specs
8. UDF
9. Content encoding: MPG
10. Methods or types of web enabled DVDs
11. Control
12. Convergent/new devices
13. Recommended use case scenarios
14. Solutions definition
15. Alternatives to Director ROM production
16. Physical disk solutions
17. Director MX04 pros
18. MX04's cons
19. DVD-V authoring
20. The Mac issue
21. The ISO9660 folder
22. The solution
23. Space considerations
24. Solutions definition conclusions
25. Testing
26. Open Issues
27. Final summary recommendations
28. Cautions and secondary recommendations (withheld from this version)
29. Appendix A: Developer Overview Document (withheld from this version)
30. Appendix B. Free Media functional requirements document (withheld from this version)
31. Appendix C. Best bodies in the business

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