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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV vs CD-I again
Message-ID: <1089@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 91 06:07:19 GMT
References: <1991Apr8.085845.24662@ncsu.edu> <1991Apr8.181613.5507@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Apr9.170659.17365@ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <1991Apr9.170659.17365@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>
>Super-smooth titles require that close attention be paid to exactly WHERE
>on a CDROM information is stored, because CDROMs are pigs compared to HDs.
>It's almost a science unto itself to interleave sectors of the audio/video
>information.  Developing/testing an interactive CDROM application requires
>perfect emulation of a CDROM, in order to know how it will actually playback.
>That's what CD-I developers do.  You do NOT make it look like "a big HD".

Well, yes and no. Developing takes place on a big HD. But as I remember,
the developer utilities include software that also emulates timing of a
real CDROM on such a HD. So you can well test the layout of your
application. And yes, arranging of which data you put where on the CD
is said to be very critical. But as I said, also this should be covered.

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