Eric Auer schreef: > Maybe we should have DVD playing software and a DVD- > compatible version of DOSCDROAST first... :-p. And > I repeat my earlier argument: Just split the bluray > image into a few files, very easy :-). > What's DOSCDROAST exactly?
So far I'm quite happy with Blair's port of CDRKIT, with only drawback that we have to rely on drivers that we cannot supply and distribute (due to licensing matters), but that users have to provide themselves. For the IDE/EIDE/SATA/PATA/ATA/ATAPI ASPI shim, this is ASPI.SYS by Oaktech. Any opensource shim or addition to UIDE.SYS is not known to me, and at least mr Jack R Ellis isn't too much a fan of ASPI due to personal reasons so he's not inclined to add that to his driver. For other technologies, you'd usually need to load a driver for the mass storage controller (be it USB, FireWire, SCSI, whatever) which implements SCSIMGR$ blockdevice. This seems to be 3rdparty in all cases. Additionally you'd need a cd-rom driver also that chains to the SCSIMGR$. No opensource version of this is known to me, think there were plans for ATAPICDD in the past to have this. As for GENISOIMAGE (mkisofs basicly, creates ISO out of directory tree) I've finally found the -split-output option, which should result in FDBASECD.0[01..99], consisting of 1GB files each, I think, rather than FDBASECD.ISO The, through ASPI/SCSI, recording software WODIM should happily accept this .001 file and appends all further parts automatically on the same session (according to documentation, not tried yet). Jason Hood's OMI program is able to store entire DVD/Blueray on harddisk as a collection of 1GB files if the file system has issues with larger files. However it seems to be a custom format, and further usable only by shsudvdhd disk mounting utility. I wonder if Jason's programs (OMI, SHSUCDHD) could be made compatible with GENISOMAGE output or WODIM's expected input when considering split files. Would MPXPLAY support DVD somehow maybe? I know of no DOS players other than that 1minute-or-so trial program at http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/dvd4dos.htm Have some developers vanished completely btw? Not seen any activity by Arkady for ages :) Bernd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
