I was trying to find what was the meaning of ISO and MDS stand for in the forum, unfortunatelly I couldn't find them. So, I did a research and this is what I found:
No, it is not that ISO we are talking about. It is this one:
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Apart from being one of the leading standards organizations, ISO refers also to a CD or DVD image (not picture..) file with an extension of ".iso". The extension comes from the full name of the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM file system specification, ISO 9660.
Just like other CD/DVD image formats, ISO is a file that contains full content of the disc, including every single track, directory, file and information about the structure of the disc (i.e. ISO files can't be used as they are, but they need to be either "mounted" with tools like Daemon Tools or burned to CD or DVD in order to see what files the disc image actually contains). Normally ISO files are being used to replicate existing CD/DVD discs, transfer those discs over the network to other location (or to other person) and burn back to CD/DVD which then would be an identical replica of the original disc.
I found that by going to the Glossary tab on AD site.
The main thing to know about ISO and MDS as it pertains to DVDS is the ISO is one file that contains all the info needed to make a DVD if you have a program that reads/burns ISOs. An MDS file is the one you click on if you are making a direct copy of a DL disc with a DVD9 disc of your own. Im not sure what it stands for, but i dont think its what you found. If a DVD is small enough to directly copy, then we can do a DVD Decrypter ISO read/write, and get an exact copy of original DVD. Hope that clears some of it up.
Perhaps you didn't open the link and read what it says. As you mentioned ISO 9660 is part of that organization which means :
" ISO 9660, a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization, defines a file system for CD-ROM media. It aims at supporting different computer operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and systems that follow the Unix specification, so that data may be exchanged. "
