Disc Description Protocol (DDP) is a format for specifying the content of
optical disc
An optical disc is a flat, usuallyNon-circular optical discs exist for fashion purposes; see shaped compact disc. disc-shaped object that stores information in the form of physical variations on its surface that can be read with the aid o ...
s, including
CDs
CDS, CDs, Cds, etc. may refer to:
Finance
* Canadian Depository for Securities, Canadian post-trade financial services company
* Certificate of deposit (CDs)
* Counterfeit Deterrence System, developed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence ...
and
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any ki ...
s.
DDP is commonly used for delivery of
disc premasters for duplication. DDP is a
proprietary format
A proprietary file format is a file format of a company, organization, or individual that contains data that is ordered and stored according to a particular encoding-scheme, such that the decoding and interpretation of this stored data is easily ac ...
and is the property of
DCA.
The file format specification is not freely available.
The DDP must contain 4 parts:
[Francis Rumsey, Desktop Audio Technology, 2004, Focal Press]
# Audio image(s) (.DAT file(s))
# DDP Identifier (DDPID)
# DDP Stream descriptor (DDPMS)
# Subcode descriptor (PQDESCR)
An optional text file, containing the track titles and timings, can also be included.
Software
Windows PC:
*Adobe Encore
*Cockos Reaper
*DCA Viper
*DDP Mastering Tools (command line)
*Eclipse Image Encoder
*Gear Pro Mastering
*HOFA CD Burn & DDP
*Magix Sequoia
*Merging Pyramix
*PreSonus Studio One Professional
*SADiE
*Sonoris DDP Creator
*Steinberg WaveLab
macOS:
*Triumph Mastering Suite
*Adobe Encore×
*Audiofile Engineering Triumph (previously Wave Editor)
*Audiofile Triumph
*Cockos Reaper
*DDP Mastering Tools (command line)
*DSP-Quattro
*HOFA CD Burn & DDP
*PreSonus Studio One Professional
*Sonic Studio soundBlade and PMCD
*Sonoris DDP Creator for Mac
*Steinberg WaveLab
Linux:
*DDP Mastering Tools (command line)
See also
*
PMCD
PMCD (PreMaster CD) is a specially formatted, recordable Compact Disc designed to be sent to a CD pressing plant for replication. The PreMaster CD format, developed in the early 1990s by the CD-ROM division of Sony, in cooperation wit"START Lab ...
References
Optical disc authoring
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