Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued
> You did not follow the man page for cdrecord and the README in
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/
> This is definitely wrong usage.
OK. Have to admit it's somewhat embarrassing I overread that
section flagged "important notice"..
But to be honest, things could still be put more clearly, especially
for people not so deep into all of this.
Before I will be able to test it next week, probably Monday evening,
I now came to the following "theory":
"Cdrecord currently only supports SAO mode. Cdrecord-ProDVD-1.11a35
and later allow to specify -dao for correctness. Later versions of
cdrecord will only write DVDs if -dao is specified"
-> it could be a good idea to specify -dao for DVD-R
even if it may be just "for correctness"
> cdrecord writes in SAO mode so it needs to know the sizes.
-> Currently using the pipe-scheme "mkisofs | cdrecord" I would
have to specify tsize, which I cannot do. So I cannot use the
pipe but have to create an image, the filesize of which will
be what is needed.
Right?
I read the other post regarding pxupdate. I would try that as
well on Monday, but as you already stated there is no firmware
binary supplied by Plextor. I had the hope it could be somehow
extracted using Windows, but indeed I was not able to do that.
As for the "secret firmware" - is it a new version 1.04, or only
the 1.03 as pure flash-image? In the latter case, if Plextor calls
that "secret", I wouldnt know how to call that.. perhaps "strange"..
And being on that topic, just being curious: are you under some
kind of NDA with Plextor here? After all, proDVD and pxupdate
are only available as binary as far as I can tell, would it be
a problem for Plextor if that was Open Source? (So just
trying to find out if Plextor behaves like SD card consortium
or similar proprietary..)
FL
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