Remember some old drives won't be capable of reading these disks even with the filter installed. The 'normal' mode for standard CD burning equals to mode 1, and the XCD mode equals to mode 2, with reduced error correction data and beter disk space usage.įor reading an XCD, you'll need to have installed the CD-XA filter. All normal data CDs are mode 1, which has less effective capacity due to the large amount of error correction data needed to make the disc more readable/secure despite damage on its surface. However, since the CD-XA or mode 2 format was originally created for VCD/SVCD only, you will need certain software to create this type of disc with any file types. These avobe recordable capacities do not imply any overburn methods.Īs you can see, the XCD has higher capacities, because it uses bigger data sectors. Anyway, most drives should be able to read an XCD by now. If your XCD disc is unreadable even after installing the filter, you'll have to wait for a more compatible release of the filter and/or the image maker. Therefore we recommend you to burn your first XCD on a CD-RW (ReWriteable CD) to test its compatibility with your drives. The XCD is still in its experimental phase, and by no means it is a finished product. Notice the XCD is not yet readable by all CD/DVD drives.
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Also, you will need to install a special filter to read this type of disc. Please be aware that this technology is still under development, and there is no standard for the XCD disc yet. Therefore, both audio and video quality can be increased using standard recordable discs. With the XCD disc you can have bigger data sector sizes, because of the usage of reduced error correction data, such that more space of the CD can be used for media files. The proper name for this format is XCD, but since the format creates discs with mode 2 sectors, it is also known as mode 2 CD or CD-XA (for eXtended Architecture).
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