Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:18:25 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Burning DVD-R's Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031229135826.038d4f88@localhost> In-Reply-To: <8385797A-3A3F-11D8-9B18-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <200312291957.MAA24137@lariat.org> <8385797A-3A3F-11D8-9B18-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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At 01:42 PM 12/29/2003, Charles Swiger wrote: >Yes, FreeBSD can burn DVD-R's. Please see /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools. I've taken a look at this port. Unfortunately, it's REALLY hard to figure out the documentation (which consists of a few Web pages written in very contorted -- almost unreadable -- English). From what I can tell, though, this software is really meant to work with DVD+R, which records a little more than half as fast as DVD-R. I need the speed, and so need to make sure it really works with DVD-R. Also, it looks as if this port runs on top of another utility called "cdrecord", which itself runs on top of an ATAPI-to-SCSI shim. I'm worried that this ziggurat of utilities will not be anywhere near as reliable as a simple utility that goes directly to the ATAPI drive. The code is also GPLed. I'm looking, if at all possible, for an all-BSD solution. Does such exist? The man page for FreeBSD's "burncd" command hints that it can can write DVDs, but doesn't say how. --Brett
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