2005/10/31, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/29/05, Heimdall Midgard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2005/10/30, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > This nautilus-cd-burner would have received my vote ahead of K3b if it > > > did not toast my CDs so many times and if it could do audio burning. > > > Also I would be glad if gnomebaker could do multisession for DVDs and > > > for me, this is the only feature that prevents me from rating it > > > highest since I love the GTK interface. > > > > You probably missed the most important FLOSS software for burning > > DVDs, dvd+rw-tools. Without dvd+rw-tools and cdrtools, k3b and > > gnomebaker are just eyecandies, pretty useless. There's also an > > unofficial DVD patch for cdrtools which AFAICT is unavailable as a > > binary package under Debian (though its availabe as an unapplied patch > > in the source package). Sadly, unlike the cdrtools (including the > > binary-only DVD-enabled vesion), dvd+rw-tools appears to be > > unmaintained upstream. There hasn't been an update to it in over a > > year: > > > > http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ > > Tell me more about this patch... Does it make dvd+rw-tools unnecessary?
Are you talking about the unofficial DVD patch to cdrtools? It's just supposed to make the GPL version of cdrecord capable of burning DVDs. I haven't actually tried using a patched version of cdrecord to burn a DVD, although the patch applies and compiles cleanly in some versions of the Debian source package (when the maintainer gets around to updating the patch). As far as I can tell it appears to be a version of a patch available here: http://people.mandriva.com/~warly/files/cdrtools/archives/ So the short answer is, YMMV (it depends). The patch might make the free version of cdrecord capable of burning DVDs. But it doesn't make dvd+rw-tools unnecessary, if you're already a happy user of dvd+rw-tools. My only worry is that dvd+rw-tools might no longer work with newer DVD burner units since the program is no longer maintained upstream. All we're seeing are fancy new front ends to the program. -- Albert Einstein: Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.
