Re: Still having trouble with ripping/burning CDs
I kept digging and ran across this:
In order to learn how X-CD-Roast does call the cdrecord-tools you can
start X-CD-Roast with the -d 1 flag, or set in the setup the loglevel
to "verbose" and see the logfile.
shawn
--- Shawn Lamson <madzimambo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ----this boring bit taken from the xcdroast faq
> X-CD-Roast is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the command-line
> cdrtools. You can do anything X-CD-Roast does yourself using these
> tools - but it's nicer and easier with the frontend. The cdrtools
> contain "cdrecord" (does do the hard job supporting all the cdwriters
> and is doing the actual writing of CDs), "readcd" (reads data-tracks
> of
> CDs - its a portable replacement of "dd"), "mkisofs" (masters
> CD-/images from given file-trees on the harddisk) and "cdda2wav"
> (reads
> audio-tracks). Cdrecord, readcd and mkisofs are maintained by Joerg
> Schilling, cdda2wav by Heiko Eissfeldt and X-CD-Roast by me, Thomas
> Niederreiter.
> ---- the point of it is that if xcdroast can do it, then cdrecord can
> do it too. Well Steve you are an engineer so I am sure you will get
> to
> the bottom of it!
>
> Shawn
>
>
> > Finally got a chance to look at this again. I tried updating my
> > kernel
> > to see if that would take care of things. I used the
> Debian-packaged
> >
> > 2.4.19 kernel. Yes, I know how to build a kernel, I just don't
> like
> > extra work. :)
> >
> > Still no joy on the ripping with the device. I keep getting the
> same
> >
> > errors that was getting before.
> >
> > On a whim I tried burning a CD with xcdroast. Amazingly, this
> > worked
> > with both the old (2.4.18) kernel and the new one. My drive I guess
> > is
> > equipped with some software that reduces the chance of buffer
> > underruns.
> > I guess that xcdroast knows how to use this, while cdrecord does
> not.
> >
> > I don't know. I'm still very interested in getting this fixed the
> > "right way". However, since I can rip with my dvd drive, and the
> > cdrw
> > now works, the priority of this is now much farther down the list.
> >
> > Thanks to all who helped out. If you have any more ideas, I'm
> > willing
> > to listen.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
>
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> > Stephen W. Juranich
> > sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
> > Electrical Engineering
> > http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
> > University of Washington
> > http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli
> >
> >
> >
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