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AuthorScript is the technology underlying all of
Sonic's DVD authoring applications, and the engine
that makes it possible to format content for DVDs.
The AuthorScript API (Application Programmer's Interface)
is a collection of C++ libraries -- and associated
calls that can be made from within applications
-- that handle all of the low-level processes for
converting video, audio, graphics and interactivity
into a DVD-Video disc. These libraries are available
to third-party developers who would like to add
direct DVD-Video publishing to their multimedia,
video and audio applications.
AuthorScript is analogous to PostScript®
for interactive media. Just as PostScript handles
font formatting details and makes them transparent
to application developers, AuthorScript handles
the details of the DVD format so that in-depth knowledge
of the DVD specification is not required to create
DVD titles. AuthorScript takes in simple DVD navigation
commands along with the source locations of video
and audio files and performs all of the tasks required
to format those files for DVD playback. Available
as a set of C++ libraries, AuthorScript can be compiled
into virtually any application.
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