Burning avi's as iso's

acid_kewpie · 09-13-2002, 05:04 PM

been messing around with cdrecord and accidentally recorded a few divx films to cd as it's own filesystem, instead of wrapping them with mkisofs... i thought they were shafted, but i can still watch them from the disk with mplayer, just using the block device as the filename. worked perfectly, no mounting required! cool!

MasterC · 09-14-2002, 03:07 AM

Hey Chris, what do you mean with their own filesystem? To burn an avi to a disc you don't need to specify much:
cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=32 -v -eject -data /location/of/movie/movie.avi

You don't need to specify more than that. Obviously the movie would need to be of correct size to fit on the disc, but that's a given. So I am confused as to how you did what you did, but it would seem very cool! How do you play it? mplayer -vo xv /dev/cdrom ? Or something else?

Cool

acid_kewpie · 09-14-2002, 03:18 PM

cdrecord can't burn files to a cdr, you need to create a filesystem for them first

mkisofs film.avi | cdrecord -

the way you suggested, which is the way i was messing with writes it as if it were an iso. the -data option is default anyway.

MasterC · 09-15-2002, 12:13 AM

Cool then, I will have to give it a try later on when I get home, thanks for letting me/us know about that.

Although I think I have burned files to a CD before, not using mkisofs first, I do backups all the time using straight cdrecord

I will check it out later to follow up and see if the discs still work afterwards.

Cool