[ILUG] Re: does afio work with cdrecord?

[Patrick Stack]

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:50, P at draigBrady.com wrote:

I've lost patience with afio and decided to go with tar.gz option
followed by split, mkisofs and cdrecord. This seems to have worked. I'll
test the resultant .iso images now.

I'm curious as to whether your suggestion will work, Padraig, so I'll
try it out and burn to disk to see.. Will let you know how I get on. Tnx

Patrick

> 
> I've never used afio but I think the problem is
> that cdrecord expects iso images not arbitrary data.
> Also your assuming that "find | afio | cdrecord" will
> be able to keep the CD recorders buffers from emptying.
> (Note forcing cdrecord to a low speed would help).
> 
> If you have the disk space I would let afio create
> many files, which can be "converted" to iso format
> using mkisofs. Then you can safely interate over
> these with cdrecord.


> 
> If you don't have the disk space, and you
> have a fast/idle/ disk/cpu then you could try
> (completely off the top of my head):
> 
> find ~patrick | afio -o -b -K -b 2048 -s 614400x '!mkisofs /dev/stdin 
> | cdrecord -eject speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -'
> 
> Pádraig
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Patrick Stack <patrick at adeptassociates.net>
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