Re: Wodim: How to read from stdin?

Til Schubbe wrote:
> * On 02.01. Thomas Schmitt muttered:
>
> | So it seems you need a different burn program.
>
> Seems so.
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Ok, I'll give it a try. Since Debian Lenny provides a quite old
> version of cdrskin, I will install it from the source.
>
> My goal is to burn a DVD with an existing image over the network.
> Therefore I asked for reading from stdin.
>   

This is a limitation of cdrecord and programs derived from it. The 
growisofs program knows how to do this for DVD but can not do it for CD 
(one of my problems). In your case you can know the size of the image in 
advance because you have it. In fact, I wonder why you don't just burn 
it direct.

In my case I have a data stream of 400-500MB which I wish to burn to CD, 
but because I can't know the size in advance and don't wish to save it 
for reasons I won't detail, I am forced to use growisofs and DVD for 
these little data sets.

Mr Schilling noted that there seems a way to do this in some modes, but 
he provides no information on it. He's probably right that it could be 
done, but doesn't want ot say how for whatever reason.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
  "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we
   used in creating them." - Einstein


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