DVD Cutting Master Format Specification

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4.0 T5TXT.DAT/Text Stream

There are five types of text files:

• Volume/Track/Index (T0)

• Commentary (T1)

• Customer Information (T2) and

• ITTS packets (T3)

• Field Oriented Customer Information (T5)

The types T0, T1, T2 and T3 are reserved.

Type T5 text file is for specific customer information about the title. T5 text file have specific fields of specific lengths.

T5 TEXT FILE CONTENTS

The contents of the T5 text file are listed in Table 4-1. Unless otherwise specified, these fields are left justified and padded with ASCII spaces (20h).

Table 4-1. T5 Text Stream Contents

Byte	Length	Symbol	Name	Value
0-7	8	CNTID	Content ID	Free character for identifying DVD categories. For example of Video; DVDVideo
8-55	48	DID	Disc ID	Unique character determined by content owner
56-119	64	TID	Title Name	Title name or Disc name
20-183	64	CID	Customer ID	Customer name, Phone #, etc
184-247	64	AID	Authoring ID	Authoring studio name, etc
148-263	16	ADT	Authoring Date	yyyy/mm/dd
264-391	128	PAD	Reserved for future use
392-399	8	MDSN	Maximum Disc Set Number
400-407	8	DSN	Disc Set Number
408-423	16	MTP	Media type	Tape, HDD, etc
424-551	128	PAD	Reserved for future use
552-555	4	SIZ	Number of bytes in MEMO field
556-1023	468	MEMO	Free for MEMO

Data stream contents

The data stream is formatted as a sequence of packs in one of the forms described above. When data streams are used with sequential access media, they may have the same name as the map packet DSI. Because DDVID uses this data as a stream of bytes, the sector size, record size and blocking factor on the input media are irrelevant.