DAO, TAO, SAO, etc

xexx · **Joined:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:25 am **Posts:** 43

Hi

I notice that in your demos you generally hide the burn modes (DAO, TAO, SAO, etc).

Does StarBurn choose the best mode automatically or should we handle that in code (TAO as first choice, then DAO PQ, DAO Raw, SAO)?

Thanks

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:05 am

I don't think we hide anything... Rather it's user who explicitly calls TrackAtOnceXxx, DiscAtOnceXxx or SessionAtOnceXxx API calls.

There's no such thing as "best recording mode". It highly depends of the task. For example you cannot burn multisession CD in DAO (TAO should be used) and you cannot burn AudioCD with CD-Text in TAO (DAO should be used instead) etc etc etc.

xexx wrote:

Hi

I notice that in your demos you generally hide the burn modes (DAO, TAO, SAO, etc).

Does StarBurn choose the best mode automatically or should we handle that in code (TAO as first choice, then DAO PQ, DAO Raw, SAO)?

Thanks

xexx · **Joined:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:25 am **Posts:** 43

Hi Anton

I'm just looking for what best default option to use (which will give the smallest number of customer headaches).

In our situation it will never be multisession and never audio disks.

Do you think default in this order:

TAO if TAO available
otherwise
DAO-PQ if available
otherwise
DAO-Raw if available
otherwise
SAO if available
otherwise
PAN-IC

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:24 pm

Oh, one little issue. If you plan to burn to DVDs you can use only TAO (I know most burning software calls it DVD DAO but it's closer to TAO from the user's point of view). So to do less coding I'd recommend stick with TAO.

xexx wrote:

Hi Anton

I'm just looking for what best default option to use (which will give the smallest number of customer headaches).

In our situation it will never be multisession and never audio disks.

Do you think default in this order:

TAO if TAO available
otherwise
DAO-PQ if available
otherwise
DAO-Raw if available
otherwise
SAO if available
otherwise
PAN-IC

xexx · **Joined:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:25 am **Posts:** 43

Cool, thanks for the info.

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:41 pm

NP

xexx wrote:

Cool, thanks for the info.

xexx · **Joined:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:25 am **Posts:** 43

Let me just say that after using a competitive burning library in the past (and i'm sure we all know to whom i am referring) it's so refreshing to have the vendor actually respond to a technical question (it sure beats thrashing about in the dark). :-)

I sure wish I had switched to StarBurn earlier (I initially looked at it more than a year ago but was scared off because the complexity wasn't hidden under a VCL wrapper, but after you've played with the demos for a few days it is reasonably straight-forward).

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:25 am

That's a problem of the StarBurn actually. Complexity. That's why we rework the ActiveX wrapper.

Thank you

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xexx wrote:

Let me just say that after using a competitive burning library in the past (and i'm sure we all know to whom i am referring) it's so refreshing to have the vendor actually respond to a technical question (it sure beats thrashing about in the dark). :-)

I sure wish I had switched to StarBurn earlier (I initially looked at it more than a year ago but was scared off because the complexity wasn't hidden under a VCL wrapper, but after you've played with the demos for a few days it is reasonably straight-forward).

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