[NCLUG] Linux-friendly DVD writer ?

[dann frazier]

hey Gabriel,
A guy at work has been messing around with this & he recommends +RW.
(conflict of interest warning: we work for a company that sells +RW
 DVD products).  The following is what he has discovered so far from
experimentation & talking w/ the developers in question.

cdrecord has support for -RW, but that is a commercial addon.
The cdrecord maintainer is planning on adding support for +RW, but
the licensing for this is TBD.

You can write +RW or +R with cdrecord or dvdrecord, but you will only
be able to read the media in a +RW writer.  This just happens to work -
the resulting media is supposedly out of spec when written by current
versions of cdrecord.  dvdrecord & cdrecord seem to have the same
limitations.


On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:06:44PM -0600, Gabriel L Somlo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at buying a DVD-writer, and got totally depressed over the
> format war that still seems to be going on...
> 
> Does anyone have any strong opinions on what format is most likely to
> end up being the winner, and what model of drive to get (preferably
> one that would be usable under Linux) ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gabriel
> 
> 
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