Re: Wodim: How to read from stdin?
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.cd-record |
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| 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]