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2 unusual facts about Universal Disk Format


CDVD

Such discs must be written in the so-called "Mode 1", which is compatible with both the ISO 9660 and UDF 1.02 filesystems, and therefore limits the amount of data that can be stored on an 80-minute CD to 700 MiB.

Universal Disk Format

Many DVD players do not support any UDF revision other than version 1.02.


InCD

Systems which do not support UDF (such as Windows 98) will only present a HTML page (stored on the disk, outside the UDF part), explaining the problem and linking to a free UDF reader software.


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