>From: Andreas Eckleder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I'd like to include "on-the-fly" Disc-at-once support for cdrecord in a cd
>recording frontend I'm writing (Gnome-Toaster).
>Fooling around with cdrecord a bit I realized that it would be great if I
>could just pass stdin ( "-" ) for all the tracks to be written and deliver
>data for all tracks to cdrecord's stdin. I've been successfully doing this
>using cdrdao for the last couple of months, however, cdrecord's support for
>cd writers is not even comparable to that of cdrdao and cdrecord is more
>actively maintained as it seems. (Note to all Gtoaster users: cdrdao support
>will *not* go away, I'm just planning to *extend* the whole thing so's
>cdrecord dao is supported as well).
>Anyway, playing around with multiple stdin references in a single call I
>realized that the first track will be written correctly, then cdrecord will
>close it's stdin and that's it. Dropout.
>My question now is whether it would be possible to sort of brute force
>cdrecord into not closing it's source fd when it happens to be stdin ?
>I think this would help other frontend developers enormously when
>implementing "on-the-fly" dao writing with cdrecord.
>As for Gnometoaster, I'll just retreat to using different named pipes for each
>track to be written and serve my data to the one currently being processed.
>I consider this to be a hack, though, as things could obviously be solved
>better with a little support of cdrecord.
I may look at this.... You may need to specify the track size then.
Note: for AUdio CD's this is not a good idea:
Cdrecord creates exact copies by reading the xxx.inf files created by
cdda2wav. I rather thought about calling "cdrecord *.inf ..."
instead for some time.
J�rg
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