Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-12-01 Thread Andy Polyakov
Only once fully formated (which takes 1 hour for 1x media), DVD-RW permits for random write, but with 32KB granularity. Latter means that you either have to have special kernel driver which would arrange for 32KB granularity or modify file system code to do same thing. Now note that no

highest priority?

2003-12-01 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, cdrecord and cdda2wav are running at highest priority (-20). Is it really necessary? Is it also necessary if DMA is enabled? Wouldn't a less higher priority, say -18, suffice? -Hanspeter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-12-01 Thread Andy Polyakov
DVD+R usually does not know the size of the medium when it starts writing and therefore writes the TOC after the data. With DVD-R and DVD-RW and cdrecord you write in SAO mode which causes the TOC to be written first and the data to be written later without the need to reposition the

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:48:20AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Note that unlike most software, my programs are higly portable and you may not notice that I e.g. put a lot of effort into the OS/2 port or a new upcoming vanilla DOS port. As someone who's using cdrecord-ProDVD on HP-UX, I'd

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2003-12-01 Thread jacob wiersma
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Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Florian Lindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: I/O Magic idvdrw4db

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking to possibly purchase a dvd burner. I/O Magic DVD +-RW/+-R Dual Format 4x DVD ReWritable drive. Number off the box is IDVDRW4DB ^^ What should this be?

Re: cdrecord and multisession audio/data cd's?

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 29 02:14:18 2003 Right, I meant to follow this up but never did. I think it's a linux/cdrecord issue now.. because it works if i boot into MacOSX 10.3 and use this cdrecord (from fink): Cdrecord 1.11a39 (powerpc-apple-macosx7.0.0) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg

Re: I/O Magic idvdrw4db

2003-12-01 Thread Geoffrey
Thanks for your response. I greatly appreciate your efforts with cdrecord and other software. Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking to possibly purchase a dvd burner. I/O Magic DVD +-RW/+-R Dual Format 4x DVD ReWritable drive. Number off the box is IDVDRW4DB

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Florian Lindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

New Lite-On 4X DVD plus/dash RW drive

2003-12-01 Thread Clarence Wilkerson
Pardon me. I've missed the discussion of dvdrecord and non GPL compliance. But I was trying out my new Lite-On DVD writer this last weekend ( $80 after rebates at Best Buy ). With dvdrecord, it would not detect as a dvd, but only as a cd. It also gave me certain scsi command errors. Is this a

New 4X plus/dash Lite-On DVD writer (411S)

2003-12-01 Thread Clarence Wilkerson
I did not see the discussion on the way dvdrecord ignores GPL. But on RH Linux this last weekend, it would not detect DVD-R in my new Lite-On drive. Clarence Wilkerson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Lite-On 4X DVD plus/dash RW drive

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Clarence Wilkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pardon me. I've missed the discussion of dvdrecord and non GPL compliance. But I was trying out my new Lite-On DVD writer this last weekend ( $80 after rebates at Best Buy ). With dvdrecord, it would not detect as a dvd, but only as a cd. It also gave

Re: highest priority?

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Hanspeter Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrecord and cdda2wav are running at highest priority (-20). Is it really necessary? Is it also necessary if DMA is enabled? Wouldn't a less higher priority, say -18, suffice? It may be that you are hit by Linux ps missfeatures :-( they run on a even much

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Florian Lindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Something I did learn friday night by studying the Win32 binaries using strings on my Solaris machine... If you look close enough at the binaries you should be able to extract the firmware yourself. Well. I know strings. But not much about windows

Re: /dev/raw/raw? and growisofs and DVD+R

2003-12-01 Thread John Muir Kumph
Andy Polyakov wrote: I'm using a PX-708A with DVD+R Verbatim disks. But its very slow. First of all, make sure you use at least growisofs 5.11. 5.11 addresses DVD+ performance problem with Pioneer unit, but later it became apparent that Plextor unit would exhibit same performance degradation.

Re: highest priority?

2003-12-01 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Dec 01 at 17:15, Joerg Schilling spoke: It may be that you are hit by Linux ps missfeatures :-( And what are »Linux ps missfeatures« ? (I'm running cdrecord and cdda2wav on FreeBsd.) they run on a even much higher priority So is it necessary or is it just for fun? (cdda2wav freezes the

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Florian Lindauer
[currently my mailhost has problems delivering to fokus, sorry] If you don't have a correct image, the program doesn't accept it. That sure is a good idea.. BTW: I just received a mail from another person who succeeded in extracting the firmare from the win32 installshield file. So this is

Re: New Lite-On 4X DVD plus/dash RW drive

2003-12-01 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Tue 02 Dec 2003 04:26:58 NZDT +1300, Joerg Schilling wrote: This list is not the place to discuss problems of this dvdrecord it has plenty of known problems and the self called maintainter does not fix them You keep on saying that this list is not for discussing dvdrecord. Please

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
OK, found the %spftw.. and the unpacked Opal_103.bin in the Win-user's LocalSettings temp dir. Now, have I proven worthy :) Why don't you do all Plextor users a favour, and post how to extract the firmware binary file from the supplied .exe on Linux, i.e. not using windows. Including file

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread j_post
On Monday 01 December 2003 06:13 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: OK, found the %spftw.. and the unpacked Opal_103.bin in the Win-user's LocalSettings temp dir. Now, have I proven worthy :) Why don't you do all Plextor users a favour, and post how to extract the firmware binary file from the

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-12-01 Thread Andy Polyakov
Only once fully formated (which takes 1 hour for 1x media), DVD-RW permits for random write, but with 32KB granularity. Latter means that you either have to have special kernel driver which would arrange for 32KB granularity or modify file system code to do same thing. Now note that no

highest priority?

2003-12-01 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, cdrecord and cdda2wav are running at highest priority (-20). Is it really necessary? Is it also necessary if DMA is enabled? Wouldn't a less higher priority, say -18, suffice? -Hanspeter

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-12-01 Thread Andy Polyakov
DVD+R usually does not know the size of the medium when it starts writing and therefore writes the TOC after the data. With DVD-R and DVD-RW and cdrecord you write in SAO mode which causes the TOC to be written first and the data to be written later without the need to reposition the

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:48:20AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Note that unlike most software, my programs are higly portable and you may not notice that I e.g. put a lot of effort into the OS/2 port or a new upcoming vanilla DOS port. As someone who's using cdrecord-ProDVD on HP-UX, I'd

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2003-12-01 Thread jacob wiersma
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Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Florian Lindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: I/O Magic idvdrw4db

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking to possibly purchase a dvd burner. I/O Magic DVD +-RW/+-R Dual Format 4x DVD ReWritable drive. Number off the box is IDVDRW4DB ^^ What should this be?

Re: cdrecord and multisession audio/data cd's?

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 29 02:14:18 2003 Right, I meant to follow this up but never did. I think it's a linux/cdrecord issue now.. because it works if i boot into MacOSX 10.3 and use this cdrecord (from fink): Cdrecord 1.11a39 (powerpc-apple-macosx7.0.0) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg

Re: I/O Magic idvdrw4db

2003-12-01 Thread Geoffrey
Thanks for your response. I greatly appreciate your efforts with cdrecord and other software. Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking to possibly purchase a dvd burner. I/O Magic DVD +-RW/+-R Dual Format 4x DVD ReWritable drive. Number off the box is IDVDRW4DB

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Florian Lindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

New Lite-On 4X DVD plus/dash RW drive

2003-12-01 Thread Clarence Wilkerson
Pardon me. I've missed the discussion of dvdrecord and non GPL compliance. But I was trying out my new Lite-On DVD writer this last weekend ( $80 after rebates at Best Buy ). With dvdrecord, it would not detect as a dvd, but only as a cd. It also gave me certain scsi command errors. Is this a

New 4X plus/dash Lite-On DVD writer (411S)

2003-12-01 Thread Clarence Wilkerson
I did not see the discussion on the way dvdrecord ignores GPL. But on RH Linux this last weekend, it would not detect DVD-R in my new Lite-On drive. Clarence Wilkerson

Re: New Lite-On 4X DVD plus/dash RW drive

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Clarence Wilkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pardon me. I've missed the discussion of dvdrecord and non GPL compliance. But I was trying out my new Lite-On DVD writer this last weekend ( $80 after rebates at Best Buy ). With dvdrecord, it would not detect as a dvd, but only as a cd. It also gave

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Florian Lindauer
NO, read the documentation to learn how to use tsize= if you write from a pipe OK, so I can do it even when using a pipe, mkisofs with -print-size. But using an image instead of the pipe would do too.. Will try soon. Something I did learn friday night by studying the Win32 binaries using

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Florian Lindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Something I did learn friday night by studying the Win32 binaries using strings on my Solaris machine... If you look close enough at the binaries you should be able to extract the firmware yourself. Well. I know strings. But not much about windows

Re: highest priority?

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Hanspeter Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrecord and cdda2wav are running at highest priority (-20). Is it really necessary? Is it also necessary if DMA is enabled? Wouldn't a less higher priority, say -18, suffice? It may be that you are hit by Linux ps missfeatures :-( they run on a even much

Re: /dev/raw/raw? and growisofs and DVD+R

2003-12-01 Thread John Muir Kumph
Andy Polyakov wrote: I'm using a PX-708A with DVD+R Verbatim disks. But its very slow. First of all, make sure you use at least growisofs 5.11. 5.11 addresses DVD+ performance problem with Pioneer unit, but later it became apparent that Plextor unit would exhibit same performance degradation. If

Re: highest priority?

2003-12-01 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Dec 01 at 17:15, Joerg Schilling spoke: It may be that you are hit by Linux ps missfeatures :-( And what are »Linux ps missfeatures« ? (I'm running cdrecord and cdda2wav on FreeBsd.) they run on a even much higher priority So is it necessary or is it just for fun? (cdda2wav freezes the

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Florian Lindauer
[currently my mailhost has problems delivering to fokus, sorry] If you don't have a correct image, the program doesn't accept it. That sure is a good idea.. BTW: I just received a mail from another person who succeeded in extracting the firmare from the win32 installshield file. So this is

Re: New Lite-On 4X DVD plus/dash RW drive

2003-12-01 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Tue 02 Dec 2003 04:26:58 NZDT +1300, Joerg Schilling wrote: This list is not the place to discuss problems of this dvdrecord it has plenty of known problems and the self called maintainter does not fix them You keep on saying that this list is not for discussing dvdrecord. Please

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
OK, found the %spftw.. and the unpacked Opal_103.bin in the Win-user's LocalSettings temp dir. Now, have I proven worthy :) Why don't you do all Plextor users a favour, and post how to extract the firmware binary file from the supplied .exe on Linux, i.e. not using windows. Including file

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread j_post
On Monday 01 December 2003 06:13 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: OK, found the %spftw.. and the unpacked Opal_103.bin in the Win-user's LocalSettings temp dir. Now, have I proven worthy :) Why don't you do all Plextor users a favour, and post how to extract the firmware binary file from the