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How to Use CDR Tools On the Fly

This guide will tell how to burn a 'data' CD on whatever OS you have that has
both the command line utility mkisofs and cdrecord. The 'on the fly' portion
means that instead of creating a separate ISO file, waiting, and then burning a
CD; both are done at the same time, effectively reducing wasted time in half.
This guide is based on burning a single 700MB avi file.

Steps

Open a Terminal. Check to see if mkisofs and cdrecord are installed:

mkisofs --version; cdrecord --version . If you do not get two new lines

detailing the versions of both apps, then go and install them.

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Change into the directory that contains the avi file, with 'cd'.

Figure out your CD Writer. The code below is to be pasted as one line and will
burn the avi file onto your CD media:

mkisofs -V "Volume.Title" -q -J -r Film.Name.DVDRip.XviDGRoUP.avi | cdrecord dev=9,0,0 driveropts=burnfree gracetime=0

-eject -overburn gracetime=0 tsize=`mkisofs -print-size -q -J -r
Film.Name.DVDRip.XviD-GRoUP.avi`s -dao -pad -v -V means volume title. Otherwise known as the CD name when you insert it into
a CD drive. It can contain spaces if the name is encased in the quotes. The title
may not be larger than 32 characters.
-q means quiet. If we do not put this option down, then the cd burning progress
display will be flooded with unwanted updates from mkisofs.
the -J option means to create a Joliet file system (improves windows
compatibility).
the -r option enables the Rock Ridge extensions for the file system (improves
linux compatibility).
the | (pipe) symbol is the most important part of the operation. The data being
created by mkisofs is being fed into cdrecord at the same time data is being
written onto the disk.

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tsize= is another important option. Since this cd is written is -doa mode

cdrecord is going to want the track size in sectors. So what we do is: `mkisofs
-print-size -q -J -r Film.Name.DVDRip.XviD-GRoUP.avi`s . And
of course remember the s and the end.
Remember a single dash - and the end of the line of code because this dash
tells cdrecord that the file it is writing to is coming from the pipe. It's important to
use the same set of options in the main mkisofs call and the one with the
-print-size switch because many options (like -J and -r) have a small impact on
the size.

Use the arrow keys to edit the information that applies to you. The volume
name, and the full file name which cannot be longer than 64 characters that has to

be entered twice.

Open the CD writer tray and insert blank media. Hit enter and wait about 205
seconds and then the CD should be finished. Label the CD how you want and your

burned film is ready to watch on your TV using a compatible player.

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Tips
The file system that we are creating for our data CD is called windows
joliet. Every consumer appliance just about is compatible with this
file-system. When in NERO and you create a 'data CD' this is the file
system that is created.
Among things a joliet filesystem is useful for: compatible to play
downloaded movies onto an XviD or MPEG-4 compatible set-top
player; , jpeg cds, data for use on windows and mac, and all other
OS's. This is the best file system to use. Don't worry about any other
file system for data CD as nobody cares about them and joliet works
good enough.
Make sure that the file you are burning is not larger than the of your CD
media.
If you have a 52x burner than you should not encounter any problems
except for the device part, if your system does not use the 'dev='
format.

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To get a list of all devices type 'cdrecord -scanbus'. This will list all
devices with their name and bus numbers. For example, if it lists your
cd/dvd writer as scsibus6, then you need to use 'dev=6,0,0'.
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Warnings
Always practice burning CDs on CD-RWs before you move onto
permanent CD-Rs .

Sources and Citations

Wikipedia entry on cdrtools

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