ISO 9660 (also known as ECMA-119) is a file system for optical disc media. The file system is an international standard available from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Since the … See more

The following is the rough overall structure of the ISO 9660 file system.
Multi-byte values can be stored in three different formats: little-endian, big-endian, and in a concatenation of both types in what the specification calls "both-byte" order. Both-byte … See more

Optical disc images are a common way to electronically transfer the contents of CD-ROMs. They often have the filename extension .iso (.iso9660 is less common, but also in use) and … See more

• Comparison of disc image software
• Disk image emulator
• List of ISO standards
• Hybrid CD
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Compact discs were originally developed for recording musical data, but soon were used for storing additional digital data types because they … See more

There are several extensions to ISO 9660 that relax some of its limitations. Notable examples include Rock Ridge (Unix-style permissions and longer names), Joliet (Unicode, allowing non-Latin scripts to be used), El Torito (enables CDs to be bootable See more

Most operating systems support reading of ISO 9660 formatted discs, and most new versions support the extensions such as Rock Ridge and … See more