RE: [Dvdrtools-users] Min hardware requirement

[Scott Prive]

Not sure what you mean exactly.

If you want to "export" the DVD-R drive for others on the LAN to use, you are 
talking about read-only access. There are no minimum requirements to speak of 
as long as the data gets fed to the burner fast enough for your recorder speed.

If you want to make the drive available for WRITES, you can't simply make the 
device available to NFS and expect that to activate the "recording". That would 
be nice feature :-) and I think DVD-RAM might support it, but not a write-once 
media like DVD-R. You want people to copy (NFS, scp.. whatever) their files to 
some temporary directory on the burning workstation. Then they will need to 
shell login to the box, and start the recording manually, same as if you were 
doing it.

Note that there are Webmin interfaces to `cdrecord'. Those interfaces *may* 
work with dvdrtools (with some hacking?). In this case, users still need to 
copy the files local to the box, then start the recording process (using the 
GUI, and again... if it works with dvdrecord).

Technically, you don't have to copy files locally to burn. You just need to 
make sure whatever system is serving the files to your burning workstation, 
(and the burning system itself) can keep up with 2 megabytes/second transfers 
over the network. Recorders only have ~ 2 megabyte hardware cache, so a small 
dip in transfer speed can ruin your recording.

If you do this over a network, you will need to test your performance.

Hope this helps,
Scott





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edouard CHALARON [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:34 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Dvdrtools-users] Min hardware requirement
> 
> 
> 
> Hi 
> Sorry if it is off topic, but I'd like to know if there is a 
> minimum hardware 
> requirement to use a DVR-105 (or 104) ? Point being that I'd 
> like to export 
> my DVD-105 to access it through my local network (NFS). The 
> machine it is 
> supposed to go is a P166 with 6 Gb of HD, a (light) Rh 7.2 
> and about 64 Mb or 
> RAM.
> 
> Thanks 
> Edouard
> 
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