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From: pjp on 31 Dec 2007 01:13
Is there any api gives the type of media in a cd/dvd drive? I know one could
basically assume if it's using over 700Megs it's dvd but that seems crude
and error prone.


From: Remy Lebeau on 31 Dec 2007 02:04

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> Is there any api gives the type of media in a cd/dvd drive?

No. The only way I know of is to use DeviceIoControl() to manually issue
SCSI commands to the drive via SPTI (NT4+ only) or ASPI (Win9x/ME) to query
the media profile that is currently active on the drive. There are plenty
of articles on MSDN on how to work with SPTI/ASPI, and you can download the
MMC specification (Multimedia Command Set) from http://www.t10.org.


Gambit


From: Alexander Grigoriev on 31 Dec 2007 11:45
SPTI is only allowed to administrative accounts. You should not use it in
consumer applications, since they need to be able to run with limited user
privileges.

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> "pjp" <pjpoirier_is_located_at_@_hotmail_._com> wrote in message
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>
>> Is there any api gives the type of media in a cd/dvd drive?
>
> No. The only way I know of is to use DeviceIoControl() to manually issue
> SCSI commands to the drive via SPTI (NT4+ only) or ASPI (Win9x/ME) to
> query
> the media profile that is currently active on the drive. There are plenty
> of articles on MSDN on how to work with SPTI/ASPI, and you can download
> the
> MMC specification (Multimedia Command Set) from http://www.t10.org.
>
>
> Gambit
>
>


From: lilian on 31 Dec 2007 16:55
pjp wrote:
> Is there any api gives the type of media in a cd/dvd drive? I know one could
> basically assume if it's using over 700Megs it's dvd but that seems crude
> and error prone.

Yes, there are several ones
See news://comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
for apis.
From: Remy Lebeau on 1 Jan 2008 23:29

"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> SPTI is only allowed to administrative accounts.

The CD/DVD portions of the lower-level IOCTL API do not require admin
rights, however.

Alternatively, on XP SP2+ at least, you can use IMAPI. The
IDiscRecorder2::get_CurrentProfiles() method can be used to retreive the
same media profile information.


Gambit


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