CDRDAO f. Windows (Burning) Guide

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this has not been written by me, but by frederick page, I've already submitted this to baldrick for inclusion as burning guide

Hi everybody,

ok, nobody likes to RTFM very much, so I'll try to keep it as short
as possible, first some URLs

• http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net
• http://www.cdrecord.org (Download, Alpha, Win32)
• http://www.brennmeister.com (artikel, ASPI) German website

You need at least cdrdao, cygwin1.dll and a working Adaptec ASPI.
If you have EAC or Feurio running, you most probably already have
a working ASPI, Nero unfortunately has it's own (proprietary) ASPI
hidden in it's directories, this will not work with other applications.
However: if you do install the Adaptec ASPI, Nero will be happy with
it, because it only uses it's own, regardless what's installed on
your system.

Although you might not have an SCSI burner, you still need to figure
out the "SCSI-ID" of your device, you can do that by
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cdrecord -scanbus
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or look at the numbers e.g. Feurio displays after selecting your device.
cdrecord might display something like that (this is my machine):

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Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'IBM ' 'DDYS-T18350N ' 'S93E' Disk
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-M1401' '1008' Removable CD-ROM
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W124TS' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) HOST ADAPTOR
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So my CD-burner has 0,5,0 as device-id, yours might differ. Now you create an SVCD-image with vcdimager, something like:
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vcdimager -t svcd //d/MyDirectory/MyMPEGFile.mpg
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and end up with videocd.bin and videocd.cue, burn that with cdrdao:
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cdrdao write -v 2 --speed 12 --device 0,5,0 --eject videocd.cue
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Yes, it is that simple

There's a catch however: cdrdao burns only DAO (hence the name) your
burner might not be supported, because not all burners are capable of
DAO

Hopefully this will get you started.

Frederick Page (fpage@thebetteros.oche.de)

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btw, please post any comments/feedback/problems related to this guide right here in this thread...

for those who don't haven't got it yet, cdrdao (and cdrecord) is free software, which means you may use that tool without paying anything for as long as you wish while doing something completely legal

...maybe there's someone who want's to write a simple GUI for those tools? shouldn't take more than a afternoon for an experienced GUI programmer... )