Actually we have something like that under OS/2. It's called Tonigy (www.tonigy.com), 
an IFS (Installable File System). According to its homepage:

# represents audio tracks as WAV or RAW files
# represents video tracks as MPG files
# represents data tracks as ISO files
# allows to access CD-I files
# allows to access boot image of an ISO track

The integration with the system is quite seamless, as it operates on a very low level. 
For instance, other IFS available for OS/2 include VFAT, FAT32, EXT2, ZipStream 
(encrypted compressed filesystem) etc quite like a kernel module in Linux. Isn't there 
anything like that already made for Linux?

-- DoC

On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 15:13:36 +0100, Filipe Arnaldo de Carvalho Valpereiro wrote:

>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
>
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