Glossary of terms. Some of this culled from vcdimager.

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See also @uref{http://www.dvdrhelp.com/glossary}.
@table @acronym
@item CD
Compact Disc
@item CD-DA
@acronym{CD} Digital Audio. This commonly referred to as an audio
@acronym{CD} and what most people think of when you play a
@acronym{CD} as it was the first to use the @acronym{CD} medium.
@item CD-ROM
@acronym{CD} Read Only Memory
@item CD-ROM XA
CD-ROM EXtended Architecture. A modificattion to the CD-ROM
specification that defines two new types of sectors. CD-ROM XA was
developed jointly by Sony, Philips, and Microsoft, and its
specifications were published in an extension to the Yellow Book.
CD-i, Photo CD, Video CD and CD-EXTRA have all subsequently been based
on CD-ROM XA.
@item CD-XA
See @acronym{CD-ROM XA}.
@item FSF
Free Software Foundation, @uref{http://www.fsf.org/}
@item GNU
@acronym{GNU} is not @acronym{UNIX}, @uref{http://www.gnu.org/}
@item ISO
International Standards Organization.
@item SVCD
Super @acronym{VCD} @uref{http://www.dvdrhelp.com/svcd}
@item VCD
Video @acronym{CD} @uref{http://www.dvdrhelp.com/vcd}
@item XA
See @acronym{CD-ROM XA}
@end table