Yeah, I'm still waiting for a CD format that doesn't suck. I guess my dream format would:
- Be an open standard not managed by idiots who change it every 6 months
- Have the option of storing nonstandard data formats that are generally compatible with the Red Book IEC 908 layout (i.e. 3234-byte sectors including EDC/ECC and full subchannel data), in addition to all standard CD sector types (Audio, Mode 1, Mode 2 Forms 1 and 2). No stock CD burner can write these areas, but industry convention is the only thing that stops it from happening, and some may want to use semicustom equipment for experimentation.
- Support individually compressed data blocks utilizing different codecs (Vorbis, Shorten, RLE, LZO, deflate, bzip, PPM, etc.) as appropriate per data and user settings.
- Support user-definable metadata structures for title, author, publication year, genre, region codes, language, etc.
- Be supported by a portable liberally-licensed library that abstracts away the complexities implied by the format, allowing CD burning programs to read individual sectors', groups of sectors', or even unpack whole tracks/sessions' worth of user data, ECC/EDC, subchannel, etc.
I suppose I can dream...
Back on topic, I'm not sure what's going on, but it should be 2 seconds. It looks like there may be an off-by-one error in your burner's firmware, since 1:74 is only one sector short of 2 seconds (1 second = 75 sectors / miniframes)