Subject: Re: CD-R or CD-R/W
To: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/22/2001 03:01:05
Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org> writes:

> When you say "ISO-Filesystem DVD-ROMs", are they limited to CD-ROM
> capacities (680Mb?), or is there something similar to ISO 9660 for
> DVD-ROM discs?  Perhaps ISO 9660 itself scales to DVD?

ISO 9660 itself scales to DVD.

In my admittedly limited sample set of about two dozen DVD movies,
only one was not ISO 9660 format.

If they're not CSS-scrambled, you can use various tools like dvdview
or ogle (both in pkgsrc) to view the movies.

        - Nathan