#1 Burning Software

hi,

i have a question about dvd padding. I just tried using starburn sdk to burn 100megs worth of data onto a dvd using StarBurn_CdvdBurnerGrabber_TrackAtOnceFromTree(). Everything worked fine except that it took forever because of the padding part. Can someone explain to me what padding is and why it needs to be done?

thanks

Padding is done to write at least one gigabyte to DVD so stand-alone DVD players (mostly old ones) would not reject the disc. For data recording it's not used so you can turn it off by calling _SetDVDPaddingState(...) API call. Also make sure you don't write in single session mode (older drives would provide padding automatically), make sure IsNextSessionAllowed set to TRUE.

great to know, thanks

hi Anton, I searched the pdf manual but cannot find anything about SetDVDPaddingState. Can you tell me where i can find some info on this api?

This one is not yet documented however both methods (to set and get are very easy). Here are prototypes (cut-n-paste from StarBurn.h):

BOOLEAN StarBurn_GetDVDPadding( IN VOID );

VOID StarBurn_SetDVDPadding( IN BOOLEAN NewDVDPadding );

First one just retuns correct state (TRUE - enabled, FALSE - disabled) and second one sets it (globally, to all of the StarBurn threads).

thank you

NP