Re: problems with LG BH10LS30 BD-RE

2011-05-17 Thread Rob Bogus

Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

On Tue 26 Apr 2011 04:22:24 NZST +1200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

   

Hi,

 

Hello Thomas and J?rg,
thanks much for your fast replies!
   

Well, i did not see Joergs's first one.
 

Jörg has not posted to this list in many months.

For a while now this list has been so quiet I had started to wonder
whether everyone moved to another one.

   


I think it is more a case that fewer people are having problems with 
current tools. Those who do have problems are using forks like wodim in 
some cases, AFAIK the maintainers (if any) aren't here. A tad more spam 
filtering would be nice, but clients can do it at their end still.


I am sorry Joerg no longer posts here, I suspect I miss his updates if 
he does them.


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

2011-05-17 Thread Rob Bogus

Thomas Schmitt wrote:

Hi,

   

If you imagine the difference between
xorriso and older utilities, what do you think is the main difference that
can be reflected on the user experience? That is, what difference does it
make if a desktop DVD burning application make use of xorriso that it can
offer a unique feature or competition advantage over others?
 

The combination of mkisofs, cdrecord and growisofs still covers most
needs of the users. One needs to know the particular properties of the
various media types, though.

I consider xorriso to be more consistent in its unified view on all
kinds of storage media: CD, DVD, BD, block devices, disk files,
character devices, pipes.
This advantage is best visible if one uses its own commands rather than
the emulations of mkisofs and cdrecord. Nevertheless, the cdrecord
emulation extends the CD multi-session model for ISO 9660 images to
nearly all DVD types and to both BD types. (Use option
--grow_overwriteable_iso)

xorriso covers the whole life cycle of an ISO image:
Creation, expansion, manipulation, extraction of files.
It lists the existing sessions and helps with mounting any of
them on Linux and FreeBSD. (Solaris is incapable in some cases.)

It has strong extra features for data backup.
- MD5 checksums of each data file and of the whole session. It has
   commands for verifying the checksums and for printing them.
- Incremental backups may be based either on inode+time, MD5, or
   plain comparison of file contents.
- Transparent zisofs compression (readable on Linux only).
- Visible gzip compression.
- External filter programs for other compression or encryption.
   (Quite slow due to forking the filter processes twice per
filtered data file.)
- Recording and restoring of Linux ACLs and Linux xattr.
- Fast mass extraction of files without rattling the DVD drive.

xorriso is prepared to serve as slave process under a frontend
program. Its options -dialog, -mark and -pkt_output allow the master
to send commands into xorriso's stdin and to receive their results
and messages from xorriso's stdout.

Last but not least, i try to offer user-friendly support. :))
   


That you do.

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.


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.


And I still use command line tools directly, based on decades of 
experience with tools which sit between the user and the command line 
tool, they have a tendency to make the the process easier to use, and 
and to make work.


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

2011-05-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi,

Rob Bogus ro...@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.


 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.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas


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

2011-05-17 Thread Rob Bogus

Thomas Schmitt wrote:

Hi,

Rob Bogusro...@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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Re: what difference xorriso is it going to make on the user interface?

2011-05-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi,

 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?

There are few complaints about cdrecord and wodim with CD media.

A while ago i had a conversation with an interested person where
we sketched CD burning from a user supplied cue sheet, i.e. user
controlled SAO. It seemed mostly about translating the terminology
of e.g. cdrdao back to the MMC specs.
Well, as so often, the interested person had other things to do.


  HFS is needed for production of bootable Debian images for PowerPC.
  UDF would allow to record video DVDs which comply to the specs for
  livingroom DVD players.

 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.

In the past i did this with afio and star archives. Meanwhile my
backups are entirely based on xorriso.

But the HFS needed for Debian GNU/Linux powerpc has to co-exist with
an ISO 9660 image that points to the same files. (Aka hybrid image.)
The boot facility of the IBM needs HFS and hands over to Debian which
then expects ISO 9660 ... if i understood it right.

The DVD video UDF is an extra primitive one with certain predefined
directory and file names. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video
I doubt you can get this from the read-write UDF driver of a Linux
kernel.
Luckily there are no different sector formats like with CD.
On DVD and BD we only have data sectors of 2048 bytes each.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas


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