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aemulor · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:32 pm Post subject: DVDFS or Video?

We'd like some feedback as to what people would like first - DVD Video playback, or DVDROM FS supporing DVD data discs.

I've posted a poll attached to this posting - your feedback will be most usefull.

Cheers,

Neil

ksattic · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:59 pm Post subject:

Oh no - I selected the wrong choice. I meant to select "DVD video" instead of the DVD filing system. I'm confused - don't you need a working DVD filing system in order to play videos? Why would a DVD filing system on its own be useful at the moment when you can't burn DVDs on RISC OS?

aemulor · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject:

DVDFS is not required to play DVDs - as we proved at the SE show at Guildford.

Cino currently just reads raw data from DVDATAPI without any UDF filing system support (only basic knowlege of the ISO CD format is used to find the location of the first video VOB file)

The poll should read differently : "DVDFS" or "DVDFS +Cino" - I'll ammend it.

Cheers,

Neil
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Dave Higton · Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Southampton

In reply to ksattic: Check out DVD-RAM as a storage medium. 4.7GB per side, read/write 100k times per sector; treat it like a hard disc; there's no separate burning stage. It's an excellent archiving and backup medium. We use them at work in the products we design and manufacture. I'd like to have a DVD-RAM drive in my Risc PC for these purposes. Stuff the video - that's what a DVD player and TV are for.

Dave

pjwerdna · Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 1

Not sure I'd have a use for cino as I have a DVD player. MIght buy it though depending on the price.

Not at all certain I'd buy DVDFS for Iyonix. I dont currently have DVD's with data on so I'd not have much use for it for that and the CDFS on the Iyonix has read all the CD's I've needed to read so far.

However if I could write DVD's of any sort then I'd buy it!
I currently write CD's on the Iyonix for the RISC OS side and the capacity of DVD's would make things much easier.

Michael Emerton · Guest

DVDFS support would be essential to grab new customers to the platform - the world has now moved onto BIG data movements (my company uses DVD RAM)

so even just being able to read them would make a huge difference to me and prospectic customers.

Get it working on the Iyonix first then on the RPC.

Very Happy

keep the work up

ksattic · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:55 am Post subject:

But what would you read from a DVD data disc that would be of any use on a RISC OS machine? Unless you could write as well as read DVD data discs, I can't think of a reason why DVDFS would be a better idea than a DVD movie player first.

adrianl · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject:

CDFS can only read the first session of a multi-session CD. DVDFS alone would perhaps be more useful for reading all CDs properly rather than reading DVDs.

Personally, I want it for watching DVDs of course Very Happy

Adrian

tlsa · Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 3

I would definitely like DVD video playback. DVDROM FS doesn't really interest me so much as I don't need to access data DVDs and I don't have any CDs that CDFS can not read.

ksattic · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:26 am Post subject:

Adrian - I don't understand what you mean by CDFS not reading sessions after the first on a multi-session CD. I thought it had done this for a long time. I just burned a two-session disc now, and it reads both sessions just fine.

adrianl · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:06 pm Post subject:

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