> >is that rate really exactly the same? can not the clock in the device > >producing the s/pdif signal have a slightly different notion of time > >than the one in the cd recorder? > > s/pdif is self clocking. its possible for there to be a little bit of > jitter, but thats what the buffering is for. look, there is no mystery > here: cdrecord can do this as well. its just a horrible (though > powerful) program. if you buffer 5 seconds worth of audio before > starting the burn, no amount of jitter that the signal might have will > cause a problem over the duration of an audio CD.
ok, i get that. even if the clocks are not running at exactly the same speed, the difference will probably be far less than a second over the total time of a cd. --martijn
