now that burning blu-ray discs (10-20min), could be spending that time...
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#52 now that burning blu-ray discs (10-20min), could be spending that time prepping other drives
I could really use that UI I talked about in
one way this could be accomplished is IF:
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a button is provided or menu item provided to detect available drives OR auto-detection that won't obliterate a disc while a drive is writing. I assume you can intersperse commands to the drive sequentially AND using multiple copies of cdrtfe (having no more open than the available drives). set the number of available drives in cdrtfe.ini? btw, it should support up to 20 drives, not just
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set the drive order, including some way to blink the drive light, like doing a drive inquire. they seem to be scrambled.
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cdrtfe could do the drive detection and there be a combobox/listbox to choose between "Separate parallel GUIs" (other drives do not have to show in this mode) and "burn content to all drives", and have a "Separate parallel GUIs" be the default, which switches the mode of the current GUI and starts up child GUI exes which provide a separate GUI for each drive (such as via command-line switches that provide device number and mode, and some for of communication request message to go back to "burn content to all drives" when that is chosen and when the current job for a given child GUI is done, kill off that extra GUI until all are gone (main waits) and switch the main gui's mode back. this could require inter-process communication, such as pipes or RPC unless you can do it with windows messages (interesting to try).).
the drives should be nameable, since the GUI order doesn't seem to match the controller order, and the separate GUIs won't have a context as to which drive. I suggest at least there be a "Ping" button so someone can examine the drive LED to see which drive is which if you are not going to allow naming of drives. the jumplist in windows 7 should reflect the drive name or if there is no drive name, the drive model and drive number. -
each instance of cdrtfe is its own context for the selected drive.
Ticket moved from /p/cdrtfe/bugs/66/
that blu-ray technology is 38Mbps btw.