Re: [slightly OT] dvdrecord 0.3.1 -- and yes, dev=/dev/cdrom works ;)

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Sat Feb 25 2006 - 14:12:09 EST


On Friday 24 February 2006 18:42, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>Slightly OT, but I think it's about time to work on a solution rather
> than the flamewar. ;)
>
>I've just released dvdrtools 0.3.1
>(http://www.arklinux.org/projects/dvdrtools/). It is a fork of
> cdrtools that (as the name indicates) adds support for writing to
> DVD-R and DVD-RW disks using purely Free Software, that tries to do
> things the Linux way ("dvdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom whatever.iso")
> without suggesting to use 2.4 kernels or even other operating
> systems, uses a standard make system, is maintained in a public svn
> repository, and does away with a lot of the libc
>functionality-clones found in cdrtools.
>
>There are a lot more things to do to get CD/DVD writing where it
> should (and could) be -- if anyone else is interested in fixing the
> CD/DVD situation, you're more than welcome to join our team.
>
>Best regards,
>bero

Thank you very much Bernard. Hopefully this will lead to real progress
in this arena.

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