On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> I don't know who Jeff Arnold is, but I'm assuming he's the author
> of CDRWin.. I've never had a bad burn with CDRwin. I wish it
> was ported to Linux as it is the best CDR software I've ever used
> hands down. I prefer open source and use cdrecord religiously
> when it will do what I need, but it doesn't do DAO, at least not
> DAO that _I_ need. I've been waiting for 3 years and although
> there have been improvements to cdrecord over that time, the
> number of features it has added that actually affect me in any
> way is "0". It seems portability to 8000 operating systems is
> more important than highly requested features. I'm not dissing
> it as a great program, as it is fantastic in every way for what
> it does. I'd like to see it be an all-in-one program though.
Assume right, Jeff Arnold is the main programmer of CDRWin.
Believe me: no need to see CDRWin on Linux. You've been lucky not to have
a bad burn. If you had it would have been almost impossible to track the
problem down. With libschily the debug level could be adjusted to see
EVERY command being sent to the bus. This means you can LEARN how a
burning sw works and you can know EXACTLY WHY and WHEN the process
stops. cdrecord is a big project, developed mainly by only one
person. It's right for me he has chosen portability, rather than
features. Main problem is for a newbie scsi programmer (as I am :-) to
take the source and learn. It's not so simple to merge all the features
you see in a GUI only app into a console one. I prefer to have more apps
who can work together aimed at simple jobs. Provided a common interface
library this is not difficult to do. cdrdao is a highly instructive
example.
> >> Mixed mode DAO copying for example.
> >Use cdrdao for simple copy jobs.
>
> I can use xcdroast/cdrecord for simple copy jobs. Anything else
> I need requires mixed mode DAO and no linux utilities work. I
> have tried numerous times with CDRW disks to no avail.
>
> I haven't looked at it in a while, but I doubt much has
> changed. Too bad. I bet the first high end CD burning software
> ported from Windows to linux gets some action happening. If
...
Please take a look at actual cdrdao release. V1.1.3 copies every single
session disc your burner can physically handle. Of course you can compose
virtually every kind of beast, once your burner doesn't reject the TOC.
IMO the only thing we need in this field is (apart from stable UDF
support) is documentation. Joerg's library is THE scsi programming library
for every os. Just tell me how can I learn to use it.
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