Optical disc authoring Optical disc authoring Optical disc authoring, including DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring is the process of assembling source material—video, audio or other data—into the proper logical volume format to then be recorded ("burned") onto an optical disc (typically a compact disc or DVD). To burn an optical disc, one usually first creates an optical disc image with a full file system, of a type designed for the optical disc, in temporary storage such as a file in another file system on a disk drive. Then, one copies the image to the disc. Most optical disc authoring utilities create a disc
Track (optical disc) a "Sequential Recording Range Information" (SRRI) field of a "Disc Management Area" (DMA). Sessions contain logical tracks, which can be split to create new tracks. A final, "invisible" session holds free space in a single logical track, called the invisible/incomplete track. When a disc is finalized or closed, the latest information in the temporary DMAs such as SRRI is taken and copied into the DMA. Track (optical disc) On an optical disc, a track (CD) or title (DVD) is a subdivision of its content. Specifically, it is a consecutive set of "sectors" (called "timecode frames" on audio tracks) on the