Hi, I forward this, see below. IMHO Joerg should be allowed access to this list.
Robert -- Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE Network Engineer - UNIX Consultant crashrecovery.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:19:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dvdrtools-users] pioneer 105 once more :) Just a note: it seems that I am blocked from this mailing list :-( >Well here come my experiences : >- cdrecord-prodvd can be downloaded from > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ > and is a binary only program. It also needs a environment key to run. > cdrecord-prodvd is based on cdrtools-2.0. This program also support DVD+R(W) > drives and should always work ok. In case of severe problems you should > also try cdrecord-prodvd. it is the only cdrecord version that really is maintained... >- cdrtools-2.0-dvd.patch.gz is a patch which enables DVD-R(W) support > for/inside cdrtools-2.0.tar.gz. It is opensource and can be downloaded from > ftp://crashrecovery.org/pub/linux/cdrtools/ This patch violates the GPL (see GPL § 2 subclause c) and GPL Preamble, subsection 6) > is added by applying this patch, and has no limitations in speed and udf/iso > size. The downside is that lowering the DVD burning speed doesn't work : > i.e. some-one inserts a 2x DVD-R burning recordable, adding the option > speed=1 won't work. AFAIK only cdrecord-prodvd supports this. The good part > is that all frontends based on cdrtools-2.0 should also work as expected > with cdrtools-2.0-dvd. So indeed i can use e.g. xcdroast to burn DVD-R(W)'s > using a GUI. download is on http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/rpms-a14.html There is no guarantee that xcdroast will work as expected id you use this patch. >- dvdrecord / dvdrtools is a fork-off from cdrtools version 1.11a8 . > Its is opensource and can be downloaded from : > http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/dvdrtools/ > http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/ This patch violates the GPL (see GPL § 2 subclause c) and GPL Preamble, subsection 6) > dvdrecord should also work ok. however its based on a older cdrtools > version which has the downside that certain CD-R(W) parts and drivers > are not really up to date. Hence its use is basicly as dvdrecord, i.e. > burn DVD-R(W)'s with dvdrecord and keep the cdrecord which was already > installed to burn CD-R(W)'s. It is known not to work correctly! It definitely breaks the official functionality and many problems with drives different from Pioneer A03 have been reported. >- cdrecord-dvdhack is again a patch/hack to add DVD-R(W) support into > cdrtools-2.0. But also here a extra binary is added next to cdrecord. > Its opensource and can be downloaded from : > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~warly/files/cdrtools/ > The patches are against cdrtools-1.11a versions. The only patch that does not violate the GPL! Please note that all these patches will not work with a recent version of cdrecord because the creators do not really maintain them. As I am constantly fixing bugs and adding new features, there is a high propability that using one of the programs above may give you far worse results that with the original software. Jörg EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ Dvdrtools-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrtools-users
