From: Andreas M. <an...@da...> - 2002-10-20 15:30:54
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On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 23:37, CJ Kucera wrote: > I know that currently cdrdao only supports burning CDs based off of > Wav files or raw CD data. What I'd like to know is if there's been > any discussion about linking in mp3 or ogg libraries so that users > can skip the "decompress to wav" step when burning audio CDs. > Obviously there's no shortage of frontends which simplify this > process and hide the decompression from the user, but you're still > writing a good 700MB of data out to disk that's really unnecessary. > I searched on the list and on the Sourceforge discussions area, > but didn't see anything mentioned. > > If this hasn't been brought up before, I'd be happy to see what > I could do with it, though I expect I'll be biting off a bit more > than I'm prepared to chew. :) And if it *has* been talked about, > I'd love to hear what people have already decided about doing this. I was already thinking about that. It would not be a big deal to link against some mp3 decoders. The main problem is that you need the exact lengths of all tracks in advance when doing DAO writing. So far I know the mp3 decoders can just give a rough guess about the decoded audio data length. I we just take the rough guess we would have to either pad the end of the track or drop some audio data depending if the rough guess was too high or too low. Another problem I see is the stability. If the decoder crashes the complete disk will be wasted. Andreas -- Andreas Mueller Tel: +49 89 67808848 Ramsmeierstr. 1 Email: an...@da... 85579 Neubiberg, Germany |