The specification for Audio CDs is the "Red Book". The Internet Archive has a copy [1]. There should be similar standards for DVD and Blu-ray, but they should b

The specification for Audio CDs is the "Red Book". The Internet Archive has a copy [1]. There should be similar standards for DVD and Blu-ray, but they should be based and enhancements of the Red Book since they have to be backward compatible with Audio CDs. For a slightly higher level look, try "Understanding and Servicing CD Players" by Ken Clements [2], which goes into some details on how CD players work to read data from CDs. [1] https://archive.org/details/RedBookAudioRecordingCompactDiscDigitalAudioSystemIEC60908SecondEdition199902ISBN2831846382/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/RedBookAudioRecordingCompactDisc... [2] https://archive.org/details/understandingandservicingcdplayers/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/understandingandservicingcdplaye...