Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 06:13:46PM +, James wrote I need to learn how to use any simple cdrecording commands (syntax challeged user here) first. Then I can worry about all sorts of fancy file types/formats. I'd be better off downloading a know file to write to the device (ascii text?) or something on the gentoo system, just to build a little confidence. I need a newbie 'how to cd burn' before I worry about the intricacies of audio recording files on CDs. 3) (Thanks for the idea, Dave Nebinger) Have you tried making an ISO of all the audio files (unaltered) that you want to burn to CD, using mkisofs, and then burning the ISO instead of the files? I'm going to read the cdrecord man pages. simple syntax examples or a link to a document to any cd burning software is what I need. A quick rundown... - audio CDs are generated by writing WAV files directly to CD. The player reads them directly from the CD. You do not mount audio CDs. - to get regular files onto CDs in a readable form, you first need to create an ISO9660 filesystem image file, using mkisofs (man mkisofs). Then burn the image file to a CD. You can usually get away with piping output from mkisofs stdout to cdrecord stdin. - you need root privileges to properly use cdrecord; deal with it. If you're scared of logging in as root, you can use sudoers.conf to give a regular user permission to run specific command and parameters. I need root-level access in order to read system files for my bi-weekly backups, so cdrecord's need to be root was never an issue for me. Note; The following is all done as root (or root equivalent). The first thing you have to do is figure out your device numbers. *YOUR SYSTEM CAN BE DIFFERENT FROM MINE*, so read the instructions carefully. Execute the command cdrecord dev=ATAPI: -scanbus. It can take a few seconds to scan the system. Ignore the warnings/disclaimers The important part is at the end. Here's that output for my system... 0,0,0 0) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX195E1 ' 'ZYS5' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'SONY' 'DVD-ROM DDU1621 ' 'S1.5' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * This indicates that my CD-RW is device 0,0,0. mkisofs creates an image of a specified directory, including subdirectories. Soft links do *NOT* work. To save time, and avoid cluttering up my drive with temp files, I pipe directly from mkisofs to cdrecord. I make a tar.bz2 of the files I want backed up, and move the file to directory xfer. The following script does it all-in-one... #!/bin/sh mkisofs -R -J xfer | cdrecord speed=8 -tao -v fs=8m -data dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 - The -R -J parameters should result in mkisofs output that's readable by all linux and Windows machines. The cdrecord parameters are... speed=8 ...the burner on this machine can go up to 48x. But my emergency backup system is a 6-year-old Dell that can only read up to 12x. Oops. This parameter slows down the burner so that the older machine can read its output. -taotrack at once. This allows you to do multi-session CDs. -v I prefer some verbosity in the output. fs=8m The fifo buffer size. The default is 4 megabytes, but I specify 8 megabytes to play safe against under-runs. -data Straight out of the man page... -data is the default, if no other flag is present and the file does not appear to be of one of the well known audio file types. If neither -data nor -audio have been specified, cdrecord defaults to -audio for all filenames that end in .au or .wav and to -data for all other files. dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 This specifies the device. The 3 numbers can be found by running cdrecord dev=ATAPI: -scanbus - The hyphen at the end specifies to use stdin as the source file. You will get a standard warning from cdrecord, because it can't know ahead of time whether the piped input will fit onto the CD. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README Success, at least for what you were asking it to do, and that is to write a file named README onto a disk. Never mind that the disk doesn't have a filesystem and the README file is just a file and not a filesystem, just write it to the disk. Which it looks like it did just that. You've now got yourself a perfectly usable dring coaster to place beside your monitor as that's all it's really good for at this point. Sarcasm aside, you really should have built an iso-based filesystem with README on it, then burn the resulting file to the disk. The man page for cdrecord has the details from building mkisofs followed by cdrecord. Well, sarcasm is fine (I deserve it). However, you have helped me uncover a simple but profound problem. The system where I'm working on the cd-rw, does not have a man page for cdrecord. It has the exact same USE flags as that another system (including 'doc') has that does have the man page for cdrecord. I thought that if the USE flag 'doc' was in /etc/make.conf, then all man pages get installed So, pretty lame, but that's why I missed the cdrecord man page. I did not think there was one... Any ideas how to get ALL of the man pages possible to all of the installed software on a gentoo system? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Well, sarcasm is fine (I deserve it). However, you have helped me uncover a simple but profound problem. Sorry, James, that was my fault. I had jumped in mid-stream and hadn't realized it was an ongoing thread... Trust me there was no sarcasm intended. As far as the man page for cdrecord, it comes in as part of app-cdr/cdrtools. I don't know why you wouldn't have it if you emerged it. I don't have a doc or man use flag, it just came in... Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:50:05 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, pretty lame, but that's why I missed the cdrecord man page. I did not think there was one... i The cdrecord man page is part of - app-cdr/cdrtools Perhaps it needs to be re-emerged? Any ideas how to get ALL of the man pages possible to all of the installed software on a gentoo system? They should be emerged as part of the installed software. Perhaps there are some issues with the manpath on your system? Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' Revision : '1015' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. This seems suspect to me... it looks like cdrecord is detecting your burner as a CD/DVD-ROM, not a burner. I had a similar problem with an external USB 2.0 DVD+-RW drive that would get misdetected. Took a while to figure out what the heck was going on... Is it possible that that's what you're running into? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
James Hiscock boxroot at gmail.com writes: Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' Revision : '1015' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. This seems suspect to me... it looks like cdrecord is detecting your burner as a CD/DVD-ROM, not a burner. I had a similar problem with an external USB 2.0 DVD+-RW drive that would get misdetected. Took a while to figure out what the heck was going on... Is it possible that that's what you're running into? Quite probable. It could even be something stupid I did in building the kernel I can mount and copy files off the cd, only. I've never been able to get a cd burner working on linux I have no idea what to try/do.gui or command line If you suggest something, tell me where a simple file is to use and suggest exact syntax I'd just like to see a simple ascii text file burned to either the rw media or the oneshot cd media. Ideas are most welcome. Jamess -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Success? cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README results Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 JF6rg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian Decker NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to burbon04 at gmx.de. For more information please see http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncrypt ion.html. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' Revision : '1015' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 (current) Profile: 0x000A Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1791936 = 1749 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 0 MB padsize: 596 KB Total size:0 MB (00:04.00) = 300 sectors Lout start:1 MB (00:06/00) = 300 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -12508 (97:15/17) ATIP start of lead out: 359845 (79:59/70) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 22 Manufacturer: Ritek Co. Blocks total: 359845 Blocks current: 359845 Blocks remaining: 359545 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write2 seconds. cdrecord: fifo had 1 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 0%. ??? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Success? cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README results Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write2 seconds. cdrecord: fifo had 1 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 0%. Success, at least for what you were asking it to do, and that is to write a file named README onto a disk. Never mind that the disk doesn't have a filesystem and the README file is just a file and not a filesystem, just write it to the disk. Which it looks like it did just that. You've now got yourself a perfectly usable dring coaster to place beside your monitor as that's all it's really good for at this point. Sarcasm aside, you really should have built an iso-based filesystem with README on it, then burn the resulting file to the disk. The man page for cdrecord has the details from building mkisofs followed by cdrecord. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
James schreef: Success? cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README results Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 JF6rg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian Decker NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to burbon04 at gmx.de. For more information please see http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncrypt ion.html. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' Revision : '1015' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 (current) Profile: 0x000A Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1791936 = 1749 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 0 MB padsize: 596 KB Total size:0 MB (00:04.00) = 300 sectors Lout start:1 MB (00:06/00) = 300 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -12508 (97:15/17) ATIP start of lead out: 359845 (79:59/70) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 22 Manufacturer: Ritek Co. Blocks total: 359845 Blocks current: 359845 Blocks remaining: 359545 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write2 seconds. cdrecord: fifo had 1 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 0%. ??? James Which seems to bring us back to where I at least was a bit ago--- 1. There's nothing wrong with the device *per se*, or with cdrecord, having now proved that it is capable of burning a file to CD (I assume the file was correctly burned, but with a file as small as a README, you're not going to get any noticeable buffer use) 2. The error that cdrecord was previously giving is to greater or lesser degree accurate-- *there's something wonky about the files you're trying to burn* I don't know what that might be, but it seems to me that one possible chain of logic is: a) no matter whether you use --audio or --data (or rename the file with a new extension), cdrecord detects the file as audio and automatically uses the --audio switch; b) cdrecord has requirements for the encoding of a file using --audio (as specified in man cdrecord, earlier quoted) c) your file, which must be burned with the --audio switch, does not meet the specifications that the --audio switch requires (as shown when you posted the file specs gleaned from mPlayer). The problem might be something else entirely, of course; this is just a theory. But since we don't know what the problem actually is (and I don't so much have the time atm to specify how to make sure all the components from the kernel to cdrecord to your file are all in proper working order), it's worth further investigation. On that note, three questions: 1) the USE flags for cdrtools are: on-the-fly-crypt - unicode - Adds support for Unicode crypt - Add support for encryption -- using mcrypt or gpg where applicable dvdr - Adds support for DVD writer hardware (e.g. in xcdroast) Which ones did you use? Maybe you have a functionality needed that you don't have enabled? 2) Have you tried re-encoding the audio file to the cdrecord specifications, and *then* burning it? 3) (Thanks for the idea, Dave Nebinger) Have you tried making an ISO of all the audio files (unaltered) that you want to burn to CD, using mkisofs, and then burning the ISO instead of the files? HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: so I tried: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v *.wav cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in '18133194218-14129220407-05-18-2005-11-42-.wav'. OK, two things occuring to me (though I can't say I know anything about this): 1) I was asking originally what the coding of the audio file actually was (meaning check it in mPlayer or some other audio player that will give you the details of the file itself)-- is it stereo, is it 44100 or whatever cdrecord wants, etc? It might also be useful to verify that it is in fact a .wav file and not some other kind of audio encoding that's just *named* with a .wav extension. OK, tried these commands on differernt audio files, one of which is called 'close.wav': cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v close.wav and cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data close.wav Both give the exact same error messages, as do using these commands with lots of different files. also, file close.wav says: file close.wav close.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 22050 Hz So I changed the file to 'close.txt' and ran cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data close.txt Interesting results: cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian Decker NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to burbon04 at gmx.de. For more information please see http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncryption.html. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' Revision : '1015' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording. cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive. maybe these last 2 lines indicated my trouble? 2) But now that I've seen that filename, I'm wondering, What happens if you rename that file? to either a) something shorter (maybe there are too many characters in the filename, if you don't have Joliet and/or other special options allowed that would let you use such a long filename), or b) to a filename that doesn't have a - directly before the .wav (I've seen it happen that applications of various types, K3b among them, choke on filenames with weird characters in unusual places, or c) both a) and b) . Maybe you can tell me to download a specific file that you know should write to the cd-rw and I'll try a (short) file that should write. The exact command line syntax to see of this drive will work with the linux drivers would be a good idea, as I have not found detailed documentation on cdrecord.. Other ideas??? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
James wrote: So I changed the file to 'close.txt' and ran cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data close.txt Last time I checked, the ATAPI:0,0,0 device syntax requires root privileges. You can use /dev/hdx instead so that the kernel can figure out the permissions. Supported modes: cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording. cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive. Try -dao instead, or try cdrdao instead of cdrecord. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Hello Holly, If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have not used cdrecord, so it's quite possible (statistically probable) that I'm doing something way stupid here so I tried: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v *.wav results: cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian Decker NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to burbon04 at gmx.de. For more information please see http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncryption.html. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' Revision : '1015' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 (current) Profile: 0x000A Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1791936 = 1749 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in '18133194218-14129220407-05-18-2005-11-42-.wav'. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
James schreef: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Hello Holly, If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have not used cdrecord, so it's quite possible (statistically probable) that I'm doing something way stupid here so I tried: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v *.wav snip cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in '18133194218-14129220407-05-18-2005-11-42-.wav'. OK, two things occuring to me (though I can't say I know anything about this): 1) I was asking originally what the coding of the audio file actually was (meaning check it in mPlayer or some other audio player that will give you the details of the file itself)-- is it stereo, is it 44100 or whatever cdrecord wants, etc? It might also be useful to verify that it is in fact a .wav file and not some other kind of audio encoding that's just *named* with a .wav extension. 2) But now that I've seen that filename, I'm wondering, What happens if you rename that file? to either a) something shorter (maybe there are too many characters in the filename, if you don't have Joliet and/or other special options allowed that would let you use such a long filename), or b) to a filename that doesn't have a - directly before the .wav (I've seen it happen that applications of various types, K3b among them, choke on filenames with weird characters in unusual places, or c) both a) and b) . HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Holly Bostick wrote: James schreef: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Hello Holly, If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have not used cdrecord, so it's quite possible (statistically probable) that I'm doing something way stupid here so I tried: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v *.wav snip cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in '18133194218-14129220407-05-18-2005-11-42-.wav'. OK, two things occuring to me (though I can't say I know anything about this): 1) I was asking originally what the coding of the audio file actually was (meaning check it in mPlayer or some other audio player that will give you the details of the file itself)-- is it stereo, is it 44100 or whatever cdrecord wants, etc? It might also be useful to verify that it is in fact a .wav file and not some other kind of audio encoding that's just *named* with a .wav extension. 2) But now that I've seen that filename, I'm wondering, What happens if you rename that file? to either a) something shorter (maybe there are too many characters in the filename, if you don't have Joliet and/or other special options allowed that would let you use such a long filename), or b) to a filename that doesn't have a - directly before the .wav (I've seen it happen that applications of various types, K3b among them, choke on filenames with weird characters in unusual places, or c) both a) and b) . HTH, Holly Hi, Just my experience here. Recently changed my CD-RW with a DVD-RW drive. Had some old cdrecord-scripts with worked with former but now doesn't work with the DVD-RW. All (CD. DVD) work with k3b though. Could try growisofs in command-line mode. HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412 in my portable. #lshw reveals: *-cdrom description: DVD reader product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 vendor: Toshiba capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw dvd /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 OK this got rid of the error in K3b. You should be able to do all you can do with your drive, in your case, I believe you can read cds and read dvds, but as far as I know, you can't burn cds, its a dvd drive, not a cdrw or a combo. (at least considering the name, I may be wrong) Well, the last line from 'lshw' says it is a cd-rw That implies I should be able to write to the CD? The page:http://www.toshiba-europe.com/storage/ Index.asp?page=PCInav=ISH_PRSmodel=SDR2412 tells me the drive has CD rw capabilities. Maybe I missed the correct driver in the kernel? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
cdr and cdrw? On 7/18/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But it looks mostly like old windows stuff... So, you're still not able to burn them? Try erasing an RW or writting an RW (so you don't spent cds). You should be able to do that with k3b, unless you already have mounted the cd (the erase and burn operations don't need the drive mounted) but I suppose that would echo an error. I'm using a brand new rw cd. I tried copying 2 .wav files to the cd. Here's the messages echoed to the K3b screen: Using cdrecored 2.1 Starting dao writing at 24x speed... Medium or burner do not support writing at 24x speed Switching down burn speed to 4x Starting in 2 seconds Starting in 1 second Writing canceled. by James after 40 minutes Removing buffer files Unlocking drive... Could not unlock CD drive. You don't need anything special on your kernel to burn cds. At least I have nothing special on mine. K3b does it all for me. OK, Maybe my use parameters are missing something? emerge -Nvp k3b reveals ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-0.11.24 +arts -debug +dvdr +encode +flac +kde -kdeenablefinal +mad +oggvorbis -xinerama 0 kB ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. So, you're still not able to burn them? Try erasing an RW or writting an RW (so you don't spent cds). You should be able to do that with k3b, unless you already have mounted the cd (the erase and burn operations don't need the drive mounted) but I suppose that would echo an error. You don't need anything special on your kernel to burn cds. At least I have nothing special on mine. K3b does it all for me. On 7/18/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412 in my portable. #lshw reveals: *-cdrom description: DVD reader product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 vendor: Toshiba capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw dvd /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 OK this got rid of the error in K3b. You should be able to do all you can do with your drive, in your case, I believe you can read cds and read dvds, but as far as I know, you can't burn cds, its a dvd drive, not a cdrw or a combo. (at least considering the name, I may be wrong) Well, the last line from 'lshw' says it is a cd-rw That implies I should be able to write to the CD? The page:http://www.toshiba-europe.com/storage/ Index.asp?page=PCInav=ISH_PRSmodel=SDR2412 tells me the drive has CD rw capabilities. Maybe I missed the correct driver in the kernel? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But it looks mostly like old windows stuff... So, you're still not able to burn them? Try erasing an RW or writting an RW (so you don't spent cds). You should be able to do that with k3b, unless you already have mounted the cd (the erase and burn operations don't need the drive mounted) but I suppose that would echo an error. I'm using a brand new rw cd. I tried copying 2 .wav files to the cd. Here's the messages echoed to the K3b screen: Using cdrecored 2.1 Starting dao writing at 24x speed... Medium or burner do not support writing at 24x speed Switching down burn speed to 4x Starting in 2 seconds Starting in 1 second Writing canceled. by James after 40 minutes Removing buffer files Unlocking drive... Could not unlock CD drive. You don't need anything special on your kernel to burn cds. At least I have nothing special on mine. K3b does it all for me. OK, Maybe my use parameters are missing something? emerge -Nvp k3b reveals ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-0.11.24 +arts -debug +dvdr +encode +flac +kde -kdeenablefinal +mad +oggvorbis -xinerama 0 kB ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
have you tried using k3bsetup? On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:36:44 + (UTC) James wrote: Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But it looks mostly like old windows stuff... So, you're still not able to burn them? Try erasing an RW or writting an RW (so you don't spent cds). You should be able to do that with k3b, unless you already have mounted the cd (the erase and burn operations don't need the drive mounted) but I suppose that would echo an error. I'm using a brand new rw cd. I tried copying 2 .wav files to the cd. Here's the messages echoed to the K3b screen: Using cdrecored 2.1 Starting dao writing at 24x speed... Medium or burner do not support writing at 24x speed Switching down burn speed to 4x Starting in 2 seconds Starting in 1 second Writing canceled. by James after 40 minutes Removing buffer files Unlocking drive... Could not unlock CD drive. You don't need anything special on your kernel to burn cds. At least I have nothing special on mine. K3b does it all for me. OK, Maybe my use parameters are missing something? emerge -Nvp k3b reveals ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-0.11.24 +arts -debug +dvdr +encode +flac +kde -kdeenablefinal +mad +oggvorbis -xinerama 0 kB ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: cdr and cdrw? We'll 'lshw' shows: product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw dvd so I'd assume cd-rw means read write: Also the Toshiba web page: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/storage/ Index.asp?page=PCInav=ISH_PRSmodel=SDR2412 Snip SD-R2412 Slim-Line Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive (24x CD-R Write/8x DVD-ROM Read) Show all Combo (Slim Line) With the introduction of SD-R2412 into the market, Toshiba has suceeded in leading the optical drive standards for the notebook market. This slim combination drive boasts read speeds of 8x DVD, 24x CD and write speeds of 24x CD-R, 10x CD-RW making it one of the most ideal drives for mobile multimedia and storage use. snip I guess it's possible it's not support to be a cd rw, but that is not likely? Maybe it's crippled in firmware, because I do not run winblows on the portable? Dunno... I'm going to test writing to a one-shot disk now... James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: have you tried using k3bsetup? Ah, this may be the problem. IN the k3b gui, I went under settings, but did not see anything critical. The only documents I have found are in /usr/share/doc/k3b-0.11.24. Running k3bsetup as root fired up the gui. All of the selections look fine. I hit the 'apply button' anbd it popped up 'Successfully updated all permissions.' It wrote out this file: /root/.kde3.3/share/config/k3bsetup2rc Which is: [Devices] TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412=4234,4200,auto,auto device_search_path=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd [External Programs] cdrdao default=/usr/bin/cdrdao cdrdao user parameters= cdrecord default=/usr/bin/cdrecord cdrecord user parameters= search path=/usr/bin/,/usr/local/bin/,/usr/sbin/,/usr/local/sbin/,/opt/schily/bin/,/sbin [General Settings] burning group=burning use burning group=false This look OK? I get the same results trying to burn 2 .wav files to the cd-rw... It runs but no progress with preparing write process (0%) or Overall progress (0%). It just hangs. I let it go a while but nothing happens. Then I quite and mount the cd manually as root... empty... ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
yes i think you should try cdrecord from the command line with the verbose option turned on and see what happens. ( the option is -V). If you need the basics of how to use cdrecord see the cd writing howto at http://tldp.org There is some weird crap with cdrecord and various kernel versions. what versions of cdrecrod and kernel are you running? also I note that i am in the cdrecording group in /etc/group - I am not sure if this is important or a hangover from some earlier setup. On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:01:12 + (UTC) James wrote: Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: have you tried using k3bsetup? Ah, this may be the problem. IN the k3b gui, I went under settings, but did not see anything critical. The only documents I have found are in /usr/share/doc/k3b-0.11.24. Running k3bsetup as root fired up the gui. All of the selections look fine. I hit the 'apply button' anbd it popped up 'Successfully updated all permissions.' It wrote out this file: /root/.kde3.3/share/config/k3bsetup2rc Which is: [Devices] TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412=4234,4200,auto,auto device_search_path=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd [External Programs] cdrdao default=/usr/bin/cdrdao cdrdao user parameters= cdrecord default=/usr/bin/cdrecord cdrecord user parameters= search path=/usr/bin/,/usr/local/bin/,/usr/sbin/,/usr/local/sbin/,/opt/schily/bin/,/sbin [General Settings] burning group=burning use burning group=false This look OK? I get the same results trying to burn 2 .wav files to the cd-rw... It runs but no progress with preparing write process (0%) or Overall progress (0%). It just hangs. I let it go a while but nothing happens. Then I quite and mount the cd manually as root... empty... ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: yes i think you should try cdrecord from the command line with the verbose option turned on and see what happens. ( the option is -V). If you need the basics of how to use cdrecord see the cd writing howto at http://tldp.org Well looking at that I used: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav Here are the results: cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to burbon04 at gmx.de. For more information please see http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncryption.html. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. scsidev: 'ATAPI:1,1,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 1 target: 1 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: -1 cdrecord: Cannot do inquiry for CD/DVD-Recorder. cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: fatal error CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s There is some weird crap with cdrecord and various kernel versions. what versions of cdrecrod and kernel are you running? 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 (standard with no patches) I kept these old kernel, which I can reboot and test? 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 2.6.11-gentoo-r10 also I note that i am in the cdrecording group in /etc/group - I am not sure if this is important or a hangover from some earlier setup. I added root and myself to this line in /etc/group cdrw::80:root,james I was already in this line: cdrom::19:root,james Maybe a better command line to test with cdrecord? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:57 + (UTC) James wrote: Well looking at that I used: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav are you sure you have the right device? What is the output of cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian Decker NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to burbon04 at gmx.de. For more information please see http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncryption.html. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. scsidev: 'ATAPI' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' '1015' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:54:50 + (UTC) James wrote: Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:57 + (UTC) James wrote: Well looking at that I used: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav are you sure you have the right device? What is the output of 0,0,0 0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' '1015' Removable CD-ROM OK time to play spot the obvious error - your command line has ATAPI:1,1,0, whereas the device is at ATAPI:0,0,0 try the command line again with the correct device :-) James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:57 + (UTC) James wrote: Well looking at that I used: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav are you sure you have the right device? What is the output of cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI Ok I tried this: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v *.wav in a dir with multiple .wav files. Here's the result: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v *.wav cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian Decker NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to burbon04 at gmx.de. For more information please see http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncryption.html. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' Revision : '1015' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 (current) Profile: 0x000A Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1791936 = 1749 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in '18133194218-14129220407-05-18-2005-11-42-.wav'. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: OK time to play spot the obvious error - your command line has ATAPI:1,1,0, whereas the device is at ATAPI:0,0,0 try the command line again with the correct device OK, I've tried a variesty of wav files, including some saved .wav files from my vonage system that plays just fine. Always I get the same closing error: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v startup.wav cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in 'startup.wav'. Ideas? Is the above syntax correct? The device seems to be correct now: . # cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v startup.wav cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian Decker NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to burbon04 at gmx.de. For more information please see http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncryption.html. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' Revision : '1015' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Current: 0x000A Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 Profile: 0x000A (current) Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1791936 = 1749 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in 'startup.wav'. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage
James schreef: Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: OK time to play spot the obvious error - your command line has ATAPI:1,1,0, whereas the device is at ATAPI:0,0,0 try the command line again with the correct device OK, I've tried a variesty of wav files, including some saved .wav files from my vonage system that plays just fine. Always I get the same closing error: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v startup.wav cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in 'startup.wav'. From man cdrecord: -audio If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in CD-DA (similar to Red Book) audio format. _The file with data for this tracks should contain stereo, 16-bit digital audio with 44100 samples/s._ The byte order should be the following: MSB left, LSB left, MSB right, LSB right, MSB left and so on. The track should be a multiple of 2352 bytes. It is not possible to put the master image of an audio track on a raw disk because data will be read in multiple of 2352 bytes during the recording process. If a filename ends in .au or .wav the file is considered to be a structured audio data file. Cdrecord assumes that the file in this case is a Sun audio file or a Microsoft .WAV file and extracts the audio data from the files by skipping over the non-audio header information. In all other cases, cdrecord will only work correctly if the audio data stream does not have any header. Because many structured audio files do not have an integral number of blocks (1/75th second) in length, it is often necessary to specify the -pad option as well. cdrecord recognizes that audio data in a .WAV file is stored in Intel (little-endian) byte order, and will automatically byte-swap the data if the CD recorder requires big-endian data. _Cdrecord will reject any audio file that does not match the Red Book requirements of 16-bit stereo samples in PCM coding at 44100 samples/second._ Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
