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SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux try #2
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>> There are all sorts of funky formats. I've only ever heard of mixed
>> audio+data CDs for circa-1995 games and Sony spyware, but maybe there
>> are decent people who actually create these things.
>
> These are in fact very common. Lots of audio CDs, with a data bit with a few
> quicktime/mpeg videos.

For the record, so-called Mixed Mode discs consisting of

Session 1 >>
Track 1 (Data)
Track 2 (Audio)
Track 3 (Audio)
...

exist(ed) quite a lot, when games were smaller than the audio. (Now that we
have things like Doom3 and Ogg, this has sadfully turned around.) To name
two of such mixedmode CDs from "popular games":
Microsoft Fury3 and MechWarrior2 (Matrox Mystique W95 Edition)

The other type of "mixed-mode" CDs are the so-called "CD Extra", which is:

Session 1 >>
Track 1 (Audio)
Track 2 (Audio)
...
Session 2 >>
Track N (Data)

from what I remember, "Music Instructor - Get freaky" was such a CD where
the iso9660 track had an .mpg video clip. This was done so legacy audio
players don't play all the fizzle (cat /dev/cdrom >/dev/dsp) through their
speakers and damage them.
(I tried in the oldest HiFi stuff I could dig up, e.g. SONY UX-1 - stayed
correctly silent on Data tracks ;-)



Jan Engelhardt
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