Eric Auer schreef:
Maybe we should have DVD playing software and a DVD-
compatible version of DOSCDROAST first... :-p. And
I repeat my earlier argument: Just split the bluray
image into a few files, very easy :-).
What's DOSCDROAST exactly?
So far I'm quite happy with Blair's port of CDRKIT, with only drawback
that we have to rely on drivers that we cannot supply and distribute
(due to licensing matters), but that users have to provide themselves.
For the IDE/EIDE/SATA/PATA/ATA/ATAPI ASPI shim, this is ASPI.SYS by
Oaktech. Any opensource shim or addition to UIDE.SYS is not known to me,
and at least mr Jack R Ellis isn't too much a fan of ASPI due to
personal reasons so he's not inclined to add that to his driver.
For other technologies, you'd usually need to load a driver for the mass
storage controller (be it USB, FireWire, SCSI, whatever) which
implements SCSIMGR$ blockdevice. This seems to be 3rdparty in all cases.
Additionally you'd need a cd-rom driver also that chains to the SCSIMGR$.
No opensource version of this is known to me, think there were plans for
ATAPICDD in the past to have this.
As for GENISOIMAGE (mkisofs basicly, creates ISO out of directory tree)
I've finally found the -split-output option, which should result in
FDBASECD.0[01..99], consisting of 1GB files each, I think, rather than
FDBASECD.ISO
The, through ASPI/SCSI, recording software WODIM should happily accept
this .001 file and appends all further parts automatically on the same
session (according to documentation, not tried yet).
Jason Hood's OMI program is able to store entire DVD/Blueray on harddisk
as a collection of 1GB files if the file system has issues with larger
files. However it seems to be a custom format, and further usable only
by shsudvdhd disk mounting utility.
I wonder if Jason's programs (OMI, SHSUCDHD) could be made compatible
with GENISOMAGE output or WODIM's expected input when considering split
files.
Would MPXPLAY support DVD somehow maybe? I know of no DOS players other
than that 1minute-or-so trial program at
http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/dvd4dos.htm
Have some developers vanished completely btw? Not seen any activity by
Arkady for ages :)
Bernd
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