#1 Burning Software

Hi,

I'm trying out your Starburn SDK.

Looks like StarBurn_CdvdBurnerGrabber_Blank only uses the callbacks DVDPLUSRW_FORMAT_BEGIN and DVDPLUSRW_FORMAT_END, which makes the progress callback rather useless.

I also noticed that after receiving DVDPLUSRW_FORMAT_END the drive keeps showing activity for quite some time (couple of minutes?) and StarBurn_CdvdBurnerGrabber_Blank only returns when that activity stops. No callbacks during that time.

I ran your blank.exe sample, which shows the same behaviour.

Nico

Read the F.A.Q. shipped with the StarBurn SDK. Your question was answered. Maybe ~1000 times since 1996

I DID find the Help folder, but I didn't notice the Docs folder until now.
Sorry...

It's OK Better later then never, right?

Another question along the same line.

I noticed that, while burning a rewritable DVD, my callback function is not only called with callback number CN_CDVD_WRITE_PROGRESS, but also with CN_DVD_MEDIA_PADDING_WRITE_PROGRESS. What is the best way to handle these? What is the meaning of the callback parameters in this case? I mean, how would I know how long this padding process will take?

This means you're burning single session DVD and StarBurn assumes it's DVD-Video. According to the DVD-Video specs you have to have at least 1GB recorded. So after your data is written (obviously less then 1GB) we do write zeros till the end of the 1GB border. You know border size (1GB), you know you data size (X), you know burning speed (Y) so estimated time is ( 1GB - X ) / Y. Trivial