Fwd: Protocol documentation updated

Apologies if this appears twice, but I sent it Monday evening when the
list stalled and it never arrived back, so I'm assuming it got 
dropped...

Pete.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Pete Bentley <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed Jan 22, 2003  00:49:57 Europe/London
> To: netmd-dev <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Protocol documentation updated
>
> On Monday, Jan 20, 2003, at 02:32 Europe/London, Marcus Brinkmann 
> wrote:
>> * What used to be "Playback Status A" is really the Get Recording 
>> Parameters
>>   call.  The "90 00" in the reply means stereo SP, and tells us at 
>> which
>>   encoding we get the available recording time and disc capacity that 
>> is
>>   returned with the disc capacity call, which is not fixed to SP 
>> stereo it
>>   seems, but could well return times for other encodings.
>
> Cool! I'm looking forward to seeing the details of this one.
>
>> * There is a new function that equals the ">>" and "<<" button on the
>>   player (see "Search Audio Track", A.3.1.10).
>
> Interesting... Wonder why they added that command, it seems kind
> of redundant.
>
>> * I have analyzed how you can do several calls to get very long disc 
>> titles
>>   (see "Get Disc Title", A.3.2.1).
>
> Very interesting... Any idea how to write long titles?
>
> I think the only other question I had was how you know what the
> Exclusive Login command does... Is that from decoding the COM APIs?
>
> I'm not questioning your conclusions, just trying to get clear in
> my head how it all works.
>
> Oh yeah, the other question was on encodings... when you say the
> char and wchar versions are seperate, do you mean they can
> have different values?
>
> Pete.
>