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Subject: Re: DVD burning question
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Tim Aslat wrote:

>Nope, just an MPEG stream to the disk.  No VOB's, no encoding, just the
>straight captured file.
>
>I'm thinking that I might be able to pipe the stream straight to the
>recording process, but I'm worried about "buffer underrun" errors
>causing problems with this.
>
>The burning time at the end of a recording session was an issue with the
>people I'm developing it for, and I'm looking into ways of getting
>around it.
>
>Ideally, I'd like to be able to capture/encode DVD-Video via a pipe and
>record directly to DVD-Video which can then be played back in a
>standalone DVD player, but that's for the future, at this stage playback
>on a PC is acceptable.  For now, I'll be satisfied with dumping the raw
>capture to the DVD-disk.
>
>  
>
Try growisofs, see handbook for examples. You might have a problem with 
the speed of the stream. I beleive you can't pause the burn, maybe set 
the burns speed to 1. Use DVD-+RW will save you some money in testing at 
least.

Chris