Sonic Intros Technology for DVD+R Double Layer Recording
March 31, 2004
Marin County, CA - Sonic Solutions has expanded its industry-leading HyperMux DVD formatting technology to include advanced algorithms specifically designed to support the new DVD+R Double Layer (DL) recording format, the company has announced.
Sonic’s new HyperMux-DL engine leverages the company’s successful history of creating multi-layer disc authoring systems for Hollywood studios by applying advanced title layout, buffer management, layer-break management, and frame selection technologies to consumer DVD creation applications for the first time.
Sonic’s MyDVD, Sonic PrimeTime, DVDit! and RecordNow! consumer applications as well as Sonic’s “Hollywood” professional applications, Scenarist and DVD Producer, are the first to take advantage of this unique technology to create DVD+R Double Layer discs that can hold four to eight hours of video or up to 8.5 billion bytes of data on a single disc.
Sonic’s HyperMux-DL formatting technology optimizes the DVD data stream to minimize buffer usage, ensuring better stream quality and integrity while enhancing title playback performance across the broadest range of consumer DVD players. HyperMux-DL has been specially tuned to deliver maximum writing speed and disc compatibility for DVD+R Double Layer media while minimizing MPEG video frame stutter.
HyperMux-DL’s proprietary Double Layer features include:
·Sonic SmartBalance – automatically balances data and video content across both disc layers for the fastest-possible write times. SmartBalance algorithms automatically adjust the layer break point to minimize lead-out time, dramatically speeding disc-burning time, while ensuring maximum read-back compatibility.
·Sonic JumpSafe – selects the ideal title set layout and layer break point with precisely filled error-correction blocks to ensure optimum video playback and to avoid the frame stutter and visual distortion that commonly occurs in DVDs authored on standard formatting systems when the MPEG data streams are interrupted during layer switch.
HyperMux DL-enhanced DVD+R Double Layer versions of Sonic’s consumer products are currently available and will be included in bundles from major drive and PC manufacturers starting in the second quarter of 2004. Sonic AuthorScript with double layer support has been released to selected licensing partners in the PC and consumer electronics markets.
Retail versions of Sonic’s professional product lines incorporating DVD+R Double Layer are slated for release in Q2 of 2004.
For more information, visit
www.sonic.com
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