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2. Device driver - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft has attempted to reduce system instability due to poorly written device drivers by creating a new framework for driver development, called Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF). This includes User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) that encourages development of certain types of drivers—primarily those that implement a message-based protocol ...

3. Regional Playback Control - Wikipedia

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   Older DVD drives use RPC-1 firmware, which allows DVDs from any region to play. Newer drives use RPC-2 firmware, which enforces DVD region coding at the hardware level. See DVD region code#Computer DVD drives for further information. Some RPC-2 drives can be converted to RPC-1 with the same features as before by using alternative firmware on ...

4. DVD Player (Windows) - Wikipedia

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   DVD Player is an app developed by Microsoft for playing DVD-Video on Microsoft Windows.Originally introduced in Windows 98, DVD Player was included in Windows Me and Windows 2000 but was removed starting with Windows XP, where DVD playback capabilities were integrated into Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center.

5. Mount Rainier (packet writing) - Wikipedia

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   Mount Rainier can be used only with drives that explicitly support it (a part of SCSI/MMC and can work over ATAPI), but works with standard CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+/-R and DVD+/-RW media. The physical format of MRW on the disk is managed by the drive's firmware, which remaps physical drive

6. Optical disc drive - Wikipedia

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   ^5 Read compatibility with existing DVD drives may vary greatly with the brand of DVD+R DL media used. Also drives that predated the media did not have the book code for DVD+R DL media in their firmware (this was not an issue for DVD-R DL though some drives could only read the first layer).

7. DVD-RAM - Wikipedia

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   DVD-burning software may not be required — discs can be used and accessed like a removable hard disk. Mac OS (8.6 or later) uses DVD-RAM directly. Windows XP uses DVD-RAM directly for FAT32-formatted discs only. Windows Vista is able to write directly to both FAT32- and UDF-formatted DVD-RAM discs from within Windows Explorer. Device drivers ...