[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: OT: cdrecord

[Tobias Diedrich]

Rich Felker wrote:

> realtime priority is not useful; joerg just claims it is. i've nver
> used realtime priority, even when i had an old burner, and all modern
> burners have "burnproof" functionality which turns off the laser when
> the buffer drains and resyncs and resumes burning when more data is
> available, all in hardware with no software intervention.

BTW, Joergs cdrecord stupidly _disables_ burnproof by default,
because he thinks it degrades cd quality.  (Which I could understand
if burnproof would kick in too often, but it usually doesn't kick in
and is nice to have safety net)

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