Re: burning a DVD

[Magnus Eriksson <magetoo%fastmail.fm@localhost>]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Quentin Garnier wrote:

> I usually just use growisofs from the dvd+rw-tools package.

And I've used the patched cdrecord from sysutils/cdrtools-ossdvd 
successfully.  It doesn't look like just switching programs would do the 
trick, but who knows.  I vaguely remember having to shop around a bit 
before finding something that worked for me.

One thing that tripped me up was that cdrecord needed a sector count when 
writing in DAO mode ("tsize=<NUM>s" -- note "s" at the end).  That 
shouldn't be an issue when writing an ISO image, but could be a 
possibility if dvdrecord is similar.


Can you write CDs?  And does a "plain" CD writer work?


MAgnus