Douglas Atique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However I found the following advantages to it, which maybe would be of
> interest to you as maintainer of cdrecord:
>
> 1. cdrw shows the progress of the recording session with a percent amount
> that lets the user know whether it is close to the end or not, while cdrecord
> just says "Operation starts." and lets you wondering until the prompt appears.
>
Not true: cdrecord -v gives this information since January 1996
> 2. cdrw allows you to write a disk as straightforward as cdrw -i file.iso and
> most users will rarely want to know what SAO, TAO, RAW96R, XA and other
> acronyms mean. cdrecord is sure an expert tool, a very good one, but it looks
> to me as a very Unix-like program, in that the learning curve to begin using
> the basic features is too steep for most users (mainly those coming from
> Windows).
This is what cdrecord does also.
If you however like to do something specific, you may do it with cdrecord but
you cannot with cdrw as cdrw only supports TAO
This means that the write quality for audio CDs from cdrw is inaceptable
and that you have problems if you like to copy a Data CD written with cdrw.
You may write Kodak picture CDs with cdrecord, you cannot with cdrw
You may use cdrecord to write CDs in raw mode and compensate for e.g. known
firmware bugs on LiteON writers.
When I did first try to use cdrw, it was hard for me to find out how to use it.
The man page was a nightmare and the CLI was strange. Cdrecord is easier to use.
The fact that cdrw ignores most errors is another problem. If you like to
realiably write CDs/DVDs/BDs you like to know whether there habe been problems.
Even in the rare cases where cdrw gives error messages, they are not useful
to find the reason for the problem.
Jörg
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