[cdvdburn] Re: DVD-RAM support and more

  • From: Steffen Huber <steffen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cdvdburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:12:33 +0100

In message <96208cc04e.davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Dave Higton <davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]
> I finally remembered to bring home a DVD-RAM disc[1] this evening, so
> I've tried it on my LG GSA-4163B drive.
> 
> It probably works...!  It goes through all the motions at a
> convincing speed, and no error messages arise.  The obstacle is
> that I don't have any means to read it to know whether it has
> worked.  I look forward to trying your prototype extractor code.

CDVDBurn with integrated Extractor will be downloadable for beta testers
Friday or Saturday evening - I'm quite happy with the overall
performance, but there are still a lot of rough edges. And it is only
properly tested on IYONIX with writers, and the user interface is really
basic...

> > No, I'm not really into writing this kind of low level stuff (i.e. a
> > filecore module), although someone experienced in writing such a
> > thing could surely produce one in no time at all - if anyone wants
> > to have a go, I can provide BBC BASIC prototype code to write to
> > DVD-RAM. The biggest problem would probably be to hack HForm ;-)
> 
> I would like to see and try that BASIC code, please.

I will package up something sensible, write some doc for it and send it
to you - probably after my holiday. You'll be astonished how easy it is
to drive a DVD-RAM "by hand".

[snip]

Steffen

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