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DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs

63 points bpierre 2 hours ago 17 comments

apitman 1 hour ago | parent

Throwback to lightscribe which I haven't thought of in many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe

Breakthrough 1 hour ago | parent

I had one of these as well... What a trip down memory lane, thanks for sharing.

QuantumNomad_ 1 hour ago | parent

I have a LightScribe compatible external CD/DVD burner. It came with a LightScribe disc that I haven’t taken the plastic off still to this day. Since it only came with a single one I could never decide which one thing to use that one LightScribe disc for, back when I was still burning things on CD and DVD.

OptionOfT 52 minutes ago | parent

I have the same issue in video games. I always end up at the end not having used my unique items because I only have 1.

unpleasurable 37 minutes ago | parent

same but brain

sam1714 47 minutes ago | parent

You didn't miss much. It took 20-30 minutes each pass, plus the extra cost for the discs.

But even if you were fine with that, it came out too light under actual lighting conditions, even after you burned it twice, which defeats the use case of making it look professionally labeled. For home use, a Sharpie beat it in every way.

TurkTurkleton 8 minutes ago | parent

Huh, that wasn't my experience. I mean, it absolutely was slow especially with sufficiently complex labels, but they generally came out fine. Granted, you absolutely couldn't just drop any arbitrary image into the LightScribe software and have it come out looking good, you'd have to mess with the contrast, but black-and-white text and line art would come out fine. And more legible than Sharpie, with my handwriting.

xattt 1 hour ago | parent

DiscT@2 (1), the granddaddy of them all.

This was followed up by Labelflash in 2007(2).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiscT@2

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labelflash

anonym29 1 hour ago | parent

star graph looks very inorganic

kuberwastaken 6 minutes ago | parent

That's what happens when your project randomly blows up through a translated tweet haha

Larrikin 1 hour ago | parent

Do they actually play?

sourweasel 39 minutes ago | parent

I can't comment on this particular project, but I know that similar projects have allowed adding images to the unused portions of the disc. A given region of the disc cannot be both image and data, but the disc can contain an inner region of data and imagery in the outer unused portion.

jedbrooke 27 minutes ago | parent

DVD codec probably allows for a certain amount of error correction to recover from scratches, images can still look readable to humans despite a bit of noise, I wonder if there’s enough overlap there to meet in the middle and have an image that also stores data

NDlurker 1 hour ago | parent

Wow! Light Scribe on the data side!

cowlevel 35 minutes ago | parent

Truly, China has overtaken the Western world in innovation.

I wonder if the disk can still hold data at the same time.

FriedPickles 34 minutes ago | parent

I've always wondered if this could be used to create 3d holograms.

Animats 15 minutes ago | parent

I used to have a label system called Neato, which provided round CD labels you could make on a printer, along with a tool to press them accurately onto the non-recording side of a CD-R. There were even transparent labels, so the resulting disk looked like a commercially produced disk.