How to engrave a file on CD (write files on a CD)

Julien · Post by **Julien** » Fri May 09, 2003 7:23 pm

Hello

I have a question :
How to engrave a file on CD (write files on a CD) ?
That possible ?

Thank

Julien

Post by **freak** » Sat May 10, 2003 12:10 am

Is that a joke

Have you ever heard of some program that does that (i mean write on
any type of CD, even not CDRW) ?

Or do you want to create a CD-burning tool?

Timo

PB · Post by PB » Sat May 10, 2003 12:24 am

> Is that a joke

I don't think it was.

> Or do you want to create a CD-burning tool?

I think that's exactly what he wants to do.

Post by **freak** » Sat May 10, 2003 12:51 am

On WindowsXP, there is a COM Interface, to burn CDs. But as that is a
bit hard to call from PB atm (ricardo?

), and your app will ONLY
work with XP then, better go search for some DLL to do that.

Timo

waffle · Post by **waffle** » Tue May 13, 2003 4:15 am

i thought that once the CD became write enabled (formatted or at least recognized as writable) that you could access it just as a floppy and the OS would handle the details with the CD Drivers. But, you would not be able to support RAW format or write to specific tracks and so forth. Or support mixed mode CD. Also, that might not even be possible for some OS (XP saves files until ordered to burn, W98 will just try to burn reguardless). But that may also depend on specific CD Drivers too i guess.

Jose · Post by **Jose** » Tue May 20, 2003 2:39 pm

Nero CD burning software provide software+drivers that allow you to create a formated CD, that then behaves like a hard drive. Only works with CD-RW cd's, I think it's called InCD and is available with latest Nero software.
So in this case it should be just like writting to the hard drive

hope that helps

hypervox · Post by **hypervox** » Wed May 21, 2003 9:41 am

Something I've been looking at is CDRTools. These are a set of command line tools originally for unix but also available for windows, that you can use to create ISO images and burn them to CD.

As you can call external programs via PB, you could use these to do the work.

Have a look at http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ which has the tools, and a nifty front end.

Rgrds

Hypervox

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Wed May 21, 2003 7:23 pm

freak wrote:On WindowsXP, there is a COM Interface, to burn CDs. But as that is a
bit hard to call from PB atm (ricardo? ), and your app will ONLY
work with XP then, better go search for some DLL to do that.

Timo

Hi,

This weekend i will release it finally. Im testing it on my PC to find bugs, i think its ok now.

(*If i can i will add a cd-burning example using a third party ocx -shareware im afraid-)