Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:29:33 +0200 From: Andy Polyakov <appro@fy.chalmers.se> To: chuck@pkix.net Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Subject: FreeBSD Port: dvd+rw-tools-5.8.4.4.4 Message-ID: <3F13F3AD.6040004@fy.chalmers.se>
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Hi,
First of all I figured that I should give you a note that dvd+rw-tools
5.10.4.5.4 were released yesterday, addressing a NEC firmware deficiency
and couple of FreeBSD-specific "inconveniences" ("fdescfs inconvenience"
mentioned in
http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite%40other.debian.org/msg04262.html and
"open tray inconvenience" when tools failed to start with open tray
mentioned in the source code).
And regarding dvd+rw-tools being classified as "DVD+RW burning software"
at ports page. Note that despite their name dvd+rw-tools support *all*
DVD recording formats and should probably be classified as "DVD burning
software":-) Then as for description section which now starts with "This
software allows one to use a DVD burner, as well as supporting
multisession CD-R/W formats, primarily via the "growisofs" utility." I
have to object:-) growisofs does not support CD-R/W in any way. It fully
supports DVD multi-sessioning [which is by the way growisofs' *unique*
feature, at least for a free Unix program]. As for CD recordings,
cdrecord is still the one to use. In case you wonder, no, you don't need
closed-source cdrecord-ProDVD to burn CD in a DVD burner, plain cdrecord
is sufficient for this task. In either case my suggestion for the
sentence in question is "This software allows one to perform DVD
recordings in a DVD burner, primarily via the growisofs utility. As the
name suggests growisofs fully supports DVD multi-sessioning." Or
something, but do remove CD-R/W!
Cheers. A.
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