some sort of "content-server"

[mwg]

well this may sound ambitious or just weird.... my idea comes from programs like avisynth or virtualdub, which have frame-server capabilities, that is, you can for example open a faux AVI file which, instead of having the actual movie frames in the file, causes the program to generate the frames "on the fly", thus avoiding using a big file. Another example is the "ReWire" interface, where you can have one or more programs generating audio and sending it thru a virtual "wire" to a mixer program such as cubase or perhaps protools

 

My idea is, instead of opening an iso file, it could open some file related to an external process which serves the actual content in ISO format, so for example there could be another program which does what Nero does but without the burning, this way you could make a data cd, audio cd, vcd etc. and "serve" it in a ISO-ready data stream which imgburn will use to burn a disc without the actual iso file.... ImgBurn would add support for this "data stream" only, allowing other developers to make these external tools in any way they want, so LUK would only worry about imgburn burning the disc and not making imgburn another (better) Nero.... which would be good tho

 

of course it's just an idea, i don't expect to see it any soon if at all... but it would be nice i think, wouldn't it? maybe if LUK ever runs out of new things to do

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

My idea is, instead of opening an iso file, it could open some file related to an external process which serves the actual content in ISO format, so for example there could be another program which does what Nero does but without the burning, this way you could make a data cd, audio cd, vcd etc. and "serve" it in a ISO-ready data stream which imgburn will use to burn a disc without the actual iso file....

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this won't happen. It sounds fairly complicated. Would it not be easier just to build an ISO and burn it? Something similar to UltraISO etc? I'm fairly sure that support for audio CDs won't be included any time soon simply because of the way they function.

 

BTW, whatever happened to Qwix? Did development stop entirely?

[mwg]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this won't happen. It sounds fairly complicated. Would it not be easier just to build an ISO and burn it? Something similar to UltraISO etc? I'm fairly sure that support for audio CDs won't be included any time soon simply because of the way they function.

 

BTW, whatever happened to Qwix? Did development stop entirely?

well it would be useful to us lazy people (and well, to everyone), it would skip a step, so if you make a data CD, instead of having some program read all the files, write an iso then read the iso and write to the cd... if you already have the data, it's kind of unnecesary to build an ISO, it would skip this step...

but yeh i know it sounds complicated, it was just an idea.

 

Qwix is being worked on, we are expecting a new version (2.0) anytime soon, all i know is it will have support for disc layouts but i read somewhere that it will have many new features and that's why Devenic (author) is taking so long to release it.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

ImgBurn will soon have ISO building capabilities too - but it won't be aimed at building special XBox ISO's or anything!