Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [Tech] Software for burning DVDs
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:36:13PM -0000, Rob Malpass wrote: > Howerver in burning an iso,
> all that's required is to write the data to the disk in precisely the way
> contained in the iso (no settings to fiddle with) - hence I can't really
> see how several programs that purport to do this can get (apparently)
> nowhere near.
>
You're implying there that it's just a case of feeding the ISO image to the
CDROM drive when you want it to burn. There's a lot more to it than that of
course. Including hardware detection, media detection along with handling
buffers (burnfree etc) and data verification. Much of this is done with low
level ATA / SCSI commands. I guess different CD burning apps do this low
level stuff differently.
