Re: Wodim: How to read from stdin?

[email protected] (Joerg Schilling)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.cd-record
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"Thomas Schmitt" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Please note that software that allows to write media without knowing the
> > size in advance is not writing in SAO mode.
>
> In principle: yes.
>
> But cdrskin can combine options -sao and -isosize
> and thus can burn ISO images which it receives
> from stdin to CD as SAO resp. to DVD as DAO.

cdrskin only works on Linux but cdrecord works on more than 30 different 
platforms and cdrecord supports a lot more different drives than cdrkin
does. Not everything that looks simple in a simple program is simple in 
a program like cdrecord that honors complex constraints.....

There are unfortunately several Openrating systems that do not support
the FIFO in cdrecord and the FIFO is needed in order to support -isosize
with pipes. I did have this feature on my radar since a long time but there
have been other more important features with higher priority....


> DVD DAO is said to be preferrable for standalone
> DVD players (see dvd+rw-tools docs).
> I am not aware of any such reason if the intended
> readers are DVD drives in computers.

It is a matter of fact that SAO mode gives the best read compatility.

Jörg

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