Enhanced Video Object, also known as Enhanced VOB, EVOB or EVO, is a

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for

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video media. It contains the actual

digital video Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data. This is in contrast to analog video, which represents moving visual images in the form of analog signals. Digital video comprises ...

digital audio Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital form. In digital audio, the sound wave of the audio signal is typically encoded as numerical samples in a continuous sequence. For example, in CD audio, sa ...

subtitle Subtitles and captions are lines of dialogue or other text displayed at the bottom of the screen in films, television programs, video games or other visual media. They can be transcriptions of the screenplay, translations of it, or informati ...

and DVD menu contents in stream form. It is an extension to

VOB VOB (for video object) is the container format in DVD-Video media. VOB can contain digital video, digital audio, subtitles, DVD menus and navigation contents multiplexed together into a stream form. Files in VOB format may be encrypted. File fo ...

. It can contain video encoded in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC,

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, or H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2 and audio encoded in AC-3,

E-AC-3 Dolby Digital Plus, also known as Enhanced AC-3 (and commonly abbreviated as DDP, DD+, E-AC-3 or EC-3) is a digital audio compression scheme developed by Dolby Labs for transport and storage of multi-channel digital audio. It is a successor to D ...

Dolby TrueHD Dolby TrueHD is a lossless, multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby Laboratories for home video, used principally in Blu-ray Disc and compatible hardware. Dolby TrueHD, along with Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3) and Dolby AC-4, is one of the int ...

, DTS,

DTS-HD DTS-HD Master Audio (DTS-HD MA; known as DTS++ before 2004) is a multi-channel, lossless audio codec developed by DTS as an extension of the lossy DTS Coherent Acoustics codec (DTS CA; usually itself referred to as just DTS). Rather than being ...

, PCM, and

MPEG-2 Part 3 Part 3 of the MPEG-2 standard (formally known as ISO/IEC 13818-3, also known as MPEG-2 Audio or MPEG-2 BC) defines audio coding: * MPEG Multichannel - It enhances MPEG-1's audio by allowing the coding of audio programs with more than two channel ...

. There are a few consumer software solutions that can play EVO files, such as

PowerDVD CyberLink PowerDVD is a universal media player for movie discs, video files, photos and music. During 2016, PowerDVD achieved certification from the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) for the playback of Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs, and became the world's ...

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for Windows and

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for Linux (unprotected EVO only), and the cross platform

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References

External links

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Videohelp.com - What is Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD?
- folder and file structure
Cutting Master Format for HD DVD-ROM and 3X SPEED DVD ROM (HD DVD CMF) Ver. 1.0

HD DVD – A technical introduction
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