On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:56:11AM -0700, William Ferrell wrote:
> Yay! Let me know when it's populated; I added support for archives
> this morning. The disc I burned with it last night worked correctly on
> a standalone CD+G player, so the tool is confirmed working.
No, it's not. :-)
When it's played successfully on 4 or 5 different brands of players,
*then* it's confirmed.
Do you know why Sonic Solutions' professional DVD authoring software
costs $30k+?
It's that room. You know, the one with the 400 different consumer DVD
players that they test new versions against before they release them?
*sigh* Repetition is fun.
Again: this is *not* an authoring app. This is an *imaging* app; it takes existing, already-working CDG data and matching audio, and prepares a redbook audio compliant image with R-W subchannel data compliant with the CD+G extensions to redbook. The image can be passed to cdrdao to produce a disc suitable for playback on standalone equipment.
While it has "only" been tested on a single brand of standalone CD+G player, it can be further demonstrated to be working properly by passing its output to cdgtools' cdgrip.py or any available Windows CD+G ripper/encoder -- such tools correctly extract the data as if it had been ripped from a real disc. Taking the testing further, a disc burned with an image made by this tool can be ripped by any CD+G ripping app (on Windows or Unix) to produce working, glitch-free results.
Given the age (old) and temperament (picky; glitches even on most real, pressed (non-burned) discs) of the player available to me for testing, and its behavior towards the disc I burned last night, I'm confident in the compliance of the images this tool produces.
This is now essentially a replacement for the "MP3+G Toolz" suite by ActiveASP Software (their software is written for .NET, naturally Windows-only).
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