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Revision as of 23:43, 10 January 2010

Introduction

Third-generation optical discs are meant for distributing high-definition video and support greater data storage capacities than DVDs, accomplished with short-wavelength visible-light lasers and greater numerical apertures.

The disc uses blue-violet lasers of greater aperture, for use with discs with smaller pits and lands, thereby greater data storage capacity per layer. In practice, the effective multimedia presentation capacity is improved with enhanced video data compression codecs such as H.264, and VC-1.

Two major competitive formats were present:

  • Blu-Ray discs
  • HD-DVD

Support in VLC

Codecs support
Codec VLC 1.0 VLC 1.1
H.264 Yes Yes
VC-1 Partial Partial
MPEG-2 Yes Yes
EAC3 Yes Yes
TrueHD Yes Yes

DTS Core

Yes Yes
DTS-HD Yes Yes
Blu-Ray Subtitles No Yes
HD-DVD Subtitles No No
Discs No No