[paranoia] Paranoia visual output

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Wed May 10 17:51:04 PDT 2000



> Happy sunny day.
> 
> I\'m curious about paranoia\'s visual output.
> I use latests paranoia 9.7 on my debian linux box.
> 
> When I run paranoia like
>   paranoia -B 1-
> It rips cd at about 2-3 speed and I have nice visual control over
> whole process.
> Sometimes it\'s necessary to speed up the process, so I use options
> some of these options: -X -W -Z.
> 
> It\'s clear that -Z disables all paranoia checking and rips at great
> speed (without visual output).

Well, it's not doing any checking at all; checking takes most of the time.

> Options -X -W are quite good compromis between speed and assurance,
> but I\'d like to know if they:
> a) output something at errors (haven\'t find any suitable CD to check this)
> b) if they do so, which errors they don\'t detect/show

Actually, -Y is active but -X and -W are unimplemented.  -Y is only an edge 
check (where most but not all errors occur); it *will* completely miss faults 
that 'full paranoia' will catch.

Monty

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