[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: OT: cdrecord

[Måns Rullgård]

Tobias Diedrich said:
> 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,

At least it's possible to change the default with a setting in the
equally stupidly named configuration file.

> 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)

Pretty much everybody agrees with you.  J?rg is the CD-R equivalent of an
audiophile.

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