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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.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we
  used in creating them." - Einstein


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