On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:16:50 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2015-08-04 01:15, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:52:32 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:
On 2015-08-03 3:27 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:04:21 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

Try Media Player Classic.

More disinfomation.

Will "Media Player Classic" copy my data, file by file, to a Blu-Ray
disc, as Win 7 does to a DVD?

No, it's just a player.

Writing to optical media requires completely different software than
reading/playing. I guess "support BluRay discs" is ambiguous.

BTW, I don't use Win7/8s DVD writing software.

In my understanding one of the main jobs of an operating system is to
connect the CPU to peripherals, like keyboards, mice, disk and disc
drives, monitors, printers and the like.
[...]
I want to know if the apps I use daily will run on Win 10, and that it
will connect them to the hardware that I attach to the system,

"Connect to the hardware" is ambiguous. If the hardware conforms to some
basic protocol(s), the OS will "see" it, but that's all. Anything else
requires additional software (usually called "drivers"), either within
the OS, or outside, or both. The trouble is that the industry has not
standardised on a universal model of connecting and working with the
hardware. So when the OS changes, the old drivers may no longer
function. With new hardware, there's no guarantee that the existing
protocol(s) or drivers will work.

Some of the apps I use were written long before DVD drives were
invented, yet if I run them on Windows 7 (32-bit, of course) it will
write their output to a DVD. That's what I expect of an OS. If Win 10
is any good, it will write their output to a Blu-Ray disc as well. If
it doesn't, it's out of date already.

You've got it backwards: It's not up-to-date _yet_. And it won't be,
unless and until the BluRay consortium agrees to licence the use of
proprietary information to the OS builders so that they include
read/write software ("drivers") for BluRay (I suspect there's a lot of
haggling going on right now). Until then, you'll have to rely on players
and writers updated to handle BluRay.

Re-read above: "drivers ... within the OS, or outside, or both". That
also applies to reading/writing software. Additional problem with
optical disks: there is no single standard file format. The format
varies with content. So in addition to being able to read the data, the
system has to be able to interpret it.In addition to writing the data,
the system has to be able to format it correctly. More software.

Sure, that's apps.

When I save a file to disk generated by an app like MS Word, the app
uses the OS to write it to the disk, but the OS does not have to
"understand" the file, it just needs to write it to disk and read it
again, and pass it back to the app that can use it.

That's what an OS is supposed to do.








I guess you don't recall the Good Old Days when every peripheral came
with a disk(ette) with drivers (and often other related software) that
you had to install before you could use the peripheral. Even digital
cameras used to come with driver/software disks.

Have a good day,

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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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