Differences between recording from an image and on-the-fly?
(1998/12/20) Many CD-R creation packages will give you a choice between creating a complete image of the CD on disk and doing what’s called “on-the-fly” writing. Each method has its advantages. Disc image files are sometimes called virtual CDs or VCDs (not to be confused with VideoCD). These are complete copies of the data as it will appear on the CD, and so require that you have enough hard drive space to hold the complete CD. This could be as much as 650MB for CD-ROM or 747MB for an audio disc when using 74-minute blanks. If you have both audio and data tracks on your CD, there would be an ISO-9660 filesystem image for the data track and one or more 16-bit 44.1KHz stereo sound images for the audio tracks. (On the Mac, you might instead use an HFS filesystem for the data track. You can create the image with Mac CD recording software, or create it as a DiskCopy image file and then burn the data fork under a different OS. The DiskCopy method doesn’t seem to allow you to create bootable
(1998/12/20) Many CD-R creation packages will give you a choice between creating a complete image of the CD on disk and doing what’s called “on-the-fly” writing. Each method has its advantages. Disc image files are sometimes called virtual CDs or VCDs (not to be confused with VideoCD). These are complete copies of the data as it will appear on the CD, and so require that you have enough hard drive space to hold the complete CD. This could be as much as 650MB for CD-ROM or 747MB for an audio disc when using 74-minute blanks. If you have both audio and data tracks on your CD,…
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