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Q Piping DVDs

I would like to do be able to build DVD-R images with genisoimage on one computer and burn them with wodim on another computer, a “burnerpc”. I build a ~/DATA.iso genisoimage. When I copy it to the burnerpc with scp and then go there via ssh then I can burn it with $ wodim -v -eject speed=8 dev=/dev/sr0 / DATA.iso

I would like to do this on the fly. Is there a way (maybe with a pipe) to burn it from my home PC via ssh ?

Ingo Rodowsky

A It although ’s possible you to have do what to be you sure want the , bandwidth between the two machines is sufficient to keep up the flow of data required by the burner. Otherwise you risk buffer underruns and coasters. A decent wired network should handle this with no problems, but using a wireless connection is more risky. It’s not just the lower bandwidth of wireless, but that it’s shared and outside of your control. All it takes is for someone else in the household to start streaming video and your data rate will slow. This can even be caused by non-Wi-Fi devices (nearby microwaves) causing interference on the channel. I wouldn’t consider doing this if the two computers are remote from one another, using an internet connection.