Quoting Felix Maibaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > does anyone know if there is a working DVD-R packet writing > solution for linux? I wouold like to just use the recorder as > a disk drive. > thanks for any pointers
DVD-R is a write once-only media, so you cannot "packet write." DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD+RW media support "packet writing." While I heard Pioneer contracted someone to write kernel, packet write support for DVD-RW, I have yet to find a patch. For DVD+RW, there are the DVD+RW Tools listed on the DVDRTools site. Of course the only DVD+RW drive that supports recording DVD-R as well as DVD+RW is from Sony. Which leaves DVD-RAM. Packet writing to DVD-RAM has been supported in Linux since 1998. I know, I still have a drive that does. DVD-RAM media also has many other advantages, such as media longevity and reliability. Unfortunately DVD-RAM is far less compatible with players and slower in general. But it's still very popular for rewritable optical archiving, hence why it was first. 3G DVD-RAM drives also record DVD-R and 4G DVD-RAM drives can also do DVD-RW. ProDVD supports DVD-R recording on 3G/4G DVD-RAM drives. -- Bryan J. Smith (suffix-free title for your protection) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thebs.org ---------------------------------------------------------- community : free will communism : will free _______________________________________________ Dvdrtools-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrtools-users
