GEARWorks SDK

GEARWorks Engine Components include:

• AudioWorks: Complete CD Audio playback, ripping, and recording functionality.
• DataWorks: Accurate ISO, UDF, or ISO/UDF CD and DVD-ROM formatting.
• VideoWorks: VCD, SVCD, and DVD-Video authoring, menu and navigation, multiplexing, and recording.
• DuplicationWorks: Control of jukeboxes and multiple drives in parallel. Import and export of physical images, such as ISO images.
• MasterWorks: Write CD or DVD titles as an industry-standard DDP image to hard disk or to DLT.

Overview

GEARWorks is a software library that can enable you to add powerful CD or DVD recording, reading, or playback capabilities to your product. GEAR licenses this software to commercial software developers or high-technology equipment manufacturers for a wide variety of applications.

Software developers use GEAR's GEARWorks SDK (Software Developers Toolkit) to implement these functions. The GEARWorks code library provides functions (complete software modules) which the main application calls to perform CD and DVD related tasks. The main application can also get answers from the functions that GEAR provides.

GEARWorks includes the GEAR drivers, which provide the software interface to any CD or DVD drive (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-Recordable, DVD-Recordable, etc.) that is connected to the user's system. This driver interface provides the connection between your software application and the user's operating system and hardware. GEAR's high-level functions make the programming of powerful capabilities a simple task. Your application software provides the user interface; GEARWorks does all the work.

GEARWorks is more than just a code library. Every GEARWorks customer gets continuous support and regular updates. GEAR's dedicated application engineers help you provide the most reliable and trouble-free CD and DVD functionality to your customers for years to come. As new drive models are introduced, GEAR's staff continues to perform compatibility testing, providing updates to GEARWorks to insure your product continues to be compatible with the latest hardware platforms.