Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] smallest distro

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:19:39PM -0800, Michael wrote:
> My program can do automated ripping of dvd's or cd's but I haven't 
> released code for it lately. Waiting til I feel motivated. You can make 
> a quickprogram of the same type with the command line programs and some 
> short Python (Perl, whatever) program to detect when a disc is in and 
> then use the regular command line utils to rip it. Geek secret. To 
> detect a disc read like /dev/cdrom and if you can read 1 byte a disc is 
> in the drive. If no disc is present usually it'll throw an error or 
> return a 0 length value.. depending on the lang you use. That operation 
> is lightweight enough that it can run it often.. like once per second.. 
> without bogging down your program. I just set it as a timed event. If 
> you want to read cddb type info it might be a lil trickier.

This program works well: http://ftso.org/choad/index1.html

Regards,
Mark
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