Introduction to DVD Playback Services Programming Guide
Explains how to use DVD Playback Services to add DVD-Video playback features to applications.
Organization of This Document
To get the most out of this guide, you should read it in this order:
Programming Concepts describes the most important programming features in DVD Playback Services.
Basic Programming Tasks shows how to implement basic DVD playback features.
Additional Programming Tasks shows how to implement some other DVD playback features, and how to debug your code.
An appendix contains a glossary that defines many of the terms used in this guide. Readers new to DVD may find it useful to read through the glossary before diving into the programming concepts.
See Also
Apple offers some additional resources to supplement the information in this guide:
The sample code project CocoaDVDPlayer demonstrates how to write a Cocoa application that uses DVD Playback Services to play DVD-Video media.
Also explore these external (non-Apple) documents and websites:
The book DVD Demystified, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill Professional, ISBN0071350268), by Jim Taylor, is the authoritative guide to DVD technology.
The website DVD FAQ (dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html) contains a list of frequently asked questions (and answers) about DVD technology, maintained by Jim Taylor.
DVD Forum (dvdforum.org) is the website of the primary industry association for the promotion of DVD technology.
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