#81 2026-03-09 09:58:45

johnraff

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Re: Application(s) of the Day

A script by the xorriso developer, so it ought to be solid.
It checks over the drives on your system before running dd so tries to save people from nuking something important.
People who are often copying iso files to usb sticks might find this interesting:

https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget

Debian wiki page:
https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget

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johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

Posts: 13,141

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Re: Application(s) of the Day

Ran into this by chance: ffmpegfs

Fuse Multi Media Filesystem
 A read-only FUSE filesystem which transcodes various audio and video formats
 to MP4, WebM, and many more on the fly when opened and read using the FFmpeg
 library, thus supporting a multitude of input formats and a variety of
 common output formats.
 .
 This allows access to a multi-media file collection with software and/or
 hardware which only understands one of the supported output formats, or
 transcodes files through simple drag-and-drop in a file browser.

Might be useful to some people.

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