On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:33:20PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > I've purchased a DVD-RW recorder... and I'd like to use it under linux... > What software could I us? I've googled with no luck 8-?
Can't imagine you actually bothered to Google at all, but whatever... There are at least two reasonable choices, and one not so reasonable. Personally, I use cdrecord-ProDVD. It's non-free, but free-for-noncommercial-use. Decide for yourself if your religious beliefs allow you to use it or not. Advantages are that it works just like cdrecord (obviously), and with a little shell scripting, is a drop-in replacement to most of the front-ends out there. Disadvantages are that you have to have a code, which expires occasionally, and that the more rabid OSS lemmings will crucify you for daring to use it, as opposed to allowing you to make the choice for yourself that they claim for themselves. Available from the cdrecord home page. Secondly, you could use dvd+rw-tools, which despite the name (and I'm sure some idiot will still miss this, and try to tell me I'm wrong) can write to both +R/RW and -R/RW media just fine. The main tool is called 'growisofs', and it uses mkisofs to actually create the filesystem to be written to the disc. Third, and non-optimal, is to use dvdrecord, which is a sorta-fork-sorta-hack of an early version of cdrecord, while Joerg Schilling was still including DVD support in the base cdrecord package. It supports a limited subset of drives. Now, if what you're ACTUALLY trying to do is author a DVD-Video disc, the two processes are separate. You create a filesystem, and then you write that filesystem to a disc, with one of these tools. -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #395: Redundant ACLs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
