Re: what difference xorriso is it going to make on the user interface?

[Rob Bogus <rob23@tmr.com>]

Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Rob Bogus<rob23@tmr.com>  wrote:
>    
> > The one feature of cdrecord which seems to be unique is burning VCD and SVCD
> > images. Since the price of DVD media has dropped and more people have
> > hardware support, use of CD for video is a very special case.
> >      
> cdrecord and its clones implement knowledge about CD recording
> which i cannot read completely from the MMC specs.
> I guess i could implement most of the exotic stuff in SAO mode
> but raw CD recording is still quite a riddle to me.
> The main reason why i never made experiments in that direction
> is that i simply have no use case and no users for this.
>
>
>    
We have stacks of CD media and a few people who actually like VCD 
format, so short stuff does get put in the way. It is a skill which must 
be refreshed or you wind up working from notes without understanding. 
Besides, if the tool chain breaks, who would know if we didn't do this?
> > I confess I have not used anything other than cdrecord to burn audio CD, so
> > I can't speak for how well that works in other tools.
> >      
> CD TEXT is another point where i lack of technical details.
> I could probably learn from libcdio if an interested user would
> show up.
>
> xorriso does only sessions with a single data track.
> cdrskin is able to record pure audio CDs, but not the CD-XA format
> that is prescribed for CD which contain audio and data tracks.
>
>
> As we are at it, mkisofs can produce HFS images and simple UDF,
> which xorriso cannot.
>
> HFS is needed for production of bootable Debian images for PowerPC.
> (They still have to use genisoimage for that.)
> Here i lack entirely of specs and would have to explore open source code.
>
> UDF would allow to record video DVDs which comply to the specs for
> livingroom DVD players.
> UDF is openly specified as ECMA-167 plus UDF-2.60. Mind twisting.
> I happily find excuses to do other things first.
>
>    
But you can generate an image to a disk file and burn it as just data 
for many of these (which don't need arcane write formats). I confess 
that we burn ext2 filesystems to DVD, since they are for use with Linux 
systems and ISO9660 is not needed. We just write them to a file loop 
mounted and formatted, then burn the image.

>    


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