Re: Video CD on Linux kernel 2.2
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:41:09 +0000 (GMT)
> > > it in the ISO9660 driver directly as it doesnt require a new filesystem,
> > > just detect Mode2 sectors and deal with them properly.
> > Its not just the sectors.
>
> The goal here is not to have the kernel handle interleaved XA files ADPCM
> decoding etc but rather prevent applications from having to do all sorts
> of ioctl gymnastics and CDROMREADRAW just to get at the data. Rather have
> the kernel do it transparently so they can just fopen() them as regular
> files.
But you can do that in user space. So you don't need to stuff more crap
in the kernel. Doing it with the nfs type solution is good. Its not a
unique idea - have a look how SGI's handle audio cds as a directory of
audio files.
Alan
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