> Well here are some good questions ... > How much buffer does DVD burn require? If 1G, too bad; if 200M, > then Puppy or Xubuntu plus application might still leave 200M buffer. > (Or, if you have separate DVD-R and CD drives, then you have more memory > buffer available, but if running OS off CD, may have to use slow burn speed.)
Typically these apps rip all the content off of the disc into a temporary location on disk. So if you have a 4 to 8 Gig movie... you have to have that much working space. Then they transcode and compile on the fly to create an ISO which will also take another 4G. That's really where the issue is. Only way around this would be to have three CD/DVD dirves. One for Live... One for Ripping... One for Writing... and you would need software that could rip, compress, transcode and compile on the fly. I don't know of a application that supports this entire process on the fly. > Would an external USB memory stick be fast enough, for disk cache, > if available? Yup... you just need enough for the rip... and then to temporarily store the ISO. ~10-12G. This would be the most effective way for a LiveCD ripping session... asside from an internal writable partition that you can mount and use temporarily. -- Gilbert Mendoza PGP: 0x075DBCA9 Email: gmendoza at gmail.com http://www.savvyadmin.com https://launchpad.net/~gmendoza https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GilbertMendoza
