Re: [Hampshire] [Tech] Software for burning DVDs

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:36:15 +0000
"James Courtier-Dutton" <james.dutton@???> wrote:


> DVD writing is actually fairly easy. growisofs (used in k3b) is
> written specifically for DVD writing, and cannot do CD writing.
> CD writing is rather complicated, due to the many different
> proprietary CD writing protocols used by each different CD writer.
> I think the other tools try to use cdrecord for dvd writing, which
> the free version does not do dvd writing.
> So, your previous dvd writing tool might be trying to use a version
> of cdrecord that does not do dvd writing.

It may be worth mentioning that Debian no longer uses cdrecord but a
fork called wajig. The reasons for this were much written about at
the time so I'll not mention them here.

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John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package