I just Remembert that Beos can copy a cdda track as a wave directly to the disk. Well, there's seems to be a similar utility to windows, but at the time i write this i didn't find any link :-(
Any way, i was thinking wand i guess that the extra track that contains normal data (normaly iso 9660 or joliet format) does the following: when the cd is in drive, a autorun script runs a program, bypassing the windows driver so that it can install a properly driver to access the audio data. Then you can play it using they player software, so that they are the only ones to access the audio data using that nasty 'driver'. Seem more a viruse to me than a really driver. The point in here is that in BeOS you can always intercept the data in the audio driver and send them to any place before it really came to the sound card (if it's a wave). this work has a sort of pipe. Well, but playing cd's in a drive just send analog audio to the souncard. Any way, in order to the cd decode that data there's must be a driver that reconstruct the data so that the cd-rom can play-it. So far so good, but that's were i stop. i don't know if the copy protecion system read the audio data and reconstruct them sending it to the audio card or there is any way of a cd-rom driver decod it without sending it to 'driver'. Just a final note: When i insert the copy protected cd i can see the tracks in explorer as a normal cd, even EAC recognize the tracks, it just can't rip them. So i can only guess that this sort of 'driver' bypass the original one on Winows and reconstruct the cdda filesystem in order to play-it latter. And eventualy, that 'driver' will only be accecible by the player ... :-( Hope not be to boring ... Any Help? Does any one know a utility to send the content of a driver to disk as in BeOS? I will keep searching, and let everyone know about it if i found one ... Best regards Filipe _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
