Re: Wodim: How to read from stdin?

Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.cd-record
Organization TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Bill Davidsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Growisofs does not write in SAO mode, this is the reason why it can do things 
> that do not work the easy way on SAO mode.
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> You are of course not forced to use growisofs. Cdrecord will work for you too
> if you use it the right way... there is e.g. the -stream-media-size size
> option for mkisofs and there are plenty of other methods.
>
>   
This is not an ISO filesystem, before or after burning. What is needed 
is a mode to read stdin until end of data, pad as needed and close. 
There are many interesting formats beyond ISO-9660.
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Sorry, but this is nonsense. The way it can be done is obvious to anyone
> with some basic skills in CD/DVD/BD writing. The reason why it is not yet 
> implemented in cdrecord is just that there are many more important things to do
> and that it would not work on all 30+ platforms that cdrecord supports.
>
>   
I don't need it on 30 platforms, I need it on one. Fortunately growisofs 
provides that, since cdrecord seems not to be able to do so.

-- 
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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