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Softcox
Jul 13, 2004

But I will not hesitate.
Not for a second.
I just thought of something that would be pretty cool (to me at least) and is pretty tiny. Basically when you're burning a DVD any blank space is wasted (ignoring multisession). My idea is to make a right click menu where you can select a bunch of files and create PAR2 parity data files. The amount to create would just be the size of a blank DVD-5/9 minus the amount of data in the files you have selected.

Example: I have 4GB of files in a folder, I right click on them, say "Fill DVD-5 with Parity". Program creates ~350MB of .par2 files in the same folder. So you put them on the DVD with the usual data and you get extra defence against scratches etc.

If this is a stupid idea just say so. It just seemed :awesome: to me. Doesn't have to be done through right-click either that just seemed simplest.

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