Questions tagged [optical-media]
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How can there be different tracks from optical media exposed to the PC? [duplicate]
Ok so bear with me.
An Audio CD has different 'tracks', right? Not the songs, but like an audio track, a data track etc. Only the data track contains a proper filesystem (and normal block sizes) as we ...
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When trying to record backup files to my BD-R burner, I get "media is not recognized as recordable DVD" on two different drives that worked before
My Fedora 36 based server (fully updater) has a SATA BD-R drive and a USB BD-R drive. I am trying to spool some backup files out from HDD to BD-R (really Verbatim M-Disc 100GB BDXL media) using ...
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Can I connect our external FTTP optical fibre to the WAN port on our router?
We have BT Fibre to the Premises, FTTP, and a Unifi Dream Machine Pro, UDMP. Currently, the BT connection terminates at a Nokia ONT, which hands off an RJ45 which is connected to the UDMP with a cat6a ...
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Can a laser damage an optical disc?
I have an optical BD drive writer (Pioneer 209DBK) that has its open mechanism possibly compromised, since when I press the eject button or right click and eject from Explorer, sometimes it opens ...
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Is it possible to create a Windows 7 System Image, to multiple Blu Ray (BD-R) discs? If so, how?
Is it possible to create a Windows 7 System Image, using Microsoft's built in Backup and Restore feature, to multiple, write once, Blu Ray (BD-R) optical discs? If so, how?
In Windows 7, when ...
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How does optical media converter provide administration web interface
I've been recently playing with the web administration of an optical media converter (Huawei HG8010) I have from my ISP and I wondered how does the web administration work.
By that I mean how does ...
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Calculating expected overhead in UDF filesystem
I'm working on a backup-to-optical-media program that traverses a file tree and adds files to UDF images (mkisofs is the backend) to burn to optical discs, splitting large files into chunks across ...
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How to avoid unwritable CDs and DVDs?
TL;DR: Writeable optical discs have a relatively short shelf life prior to use (compared to the service life of the data you record on them). Why? And how can you avoid having a stockpile of unused ...
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Computer detects multiple CDs although only one CD has been inserted?
After inserting a CD-ROM into the optical drive of my computer, two different accessible CDs show up on my desktop. One contains only audio files and the other some additional files. How is this ...
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Is it possible to directly burn a stream sequentially to the surface of optical media, and if so, how do you do it?
I am trying to burn a CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc so that each 2pi segment of the spiral track alternates between:
a steam 0's, or blank, untouched media.
and 1's (an approximately circular groove).
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Why do CDs and DVDs fill up from the centre outwards?
I recently had to burn a DVD for the first time in ages and I was wondering why CDs and DVDs start in the centre and go towards the edge.
Older rotating-disc media like vinyl records started from the ...
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Is this what optical media data-rot looks like?
First, the CD in question is not data related or “mission critical.” I simply scored a music CD at a thrift shop that was made in 1988; aka: 28 years ago as of this post.
We all know optical media ...
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Understand if DVD Rom is burned or Pressed
I have the following hardware and software available:
Desktop Computer with Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OS X
USB CD/DVD reader and writer.l
Laptop with built in BD, DVD and CD reader and writer, with ...
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Risk of data on rewritable optical media being recovered after being erased
When some software reads rewrited CD-RW or DVD-RW or BD-RW on the optical drive of one's notebook(or desktop) machine, is it possible that some malwares get the erased data in that CD-RW or DVD-RW or ...
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Do file attributes in CDs and DVDs change if you access them?
I have snooped over my boyfriend's old CDs and DVDs. I opened and copied (with copy paste) some of the files (jpeg and videos). Does this action change the file attributes (date accessed, etc.) of the ...
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