Hi, i am developer of libburn and found this message in the web archive of lists.ubuntu.com.
federicotg at gmail.com wrote: > What I'd like to > suggest is that at the very least we add cdrecord to either universe or > multiverse. If this makes it easier for the user to get cdrecord, then as a competitor i wholeheartedly support such a move. > The reason is I feel we are failing to our users regarding Blu-ray burning > support. The problem is far less with the backends than with the GUI frontends. xfburn-0.5.2 does Blu-ray via libburn. It would be nice, nevertheless, if some Xfce library experts could look into the reproducible crashes if the program is run in non-amd64 versions. Neither apport nor valgrind delivered insight by their stack traces resp. memory usage supervision. It crashes out of clear sky. See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfburn/+bugs about "crash". Afaik, K3b uses growisofs for non-CD media by default. growisofs burns Blu-ray. There are complaints around about K3b and a growisofs bug at the end of the burn run, which should now be fixed in Ubuntu. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dvd+rw-tools/+bug/1113679) My program cdrskin burns Blu-ray via libburn and was designed to be usable as replacement of cdrecord by K3b and alike. The K3b project made changes to its recognition of cdrecord versions which prevent older versions of cdrskin from being accepted. But hopefully cdrskin-1.3.4 can be used. Brasero could easily adapt to Blu-ray via growisofs or libburn. But there seems to be no maintainer on that technical level. ------------------------------------------------------------ If any skilled GUI programmer wants to fix problems in the frontend programs or start a new one, then i offer support about backends based on libburn and with growisofs. My only contribution to the world of GUI programs is a demo in Tcl/Tk to show the advantages of a xorriso dialog slave over batch mode backend programs: https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-tcltk-screen.gif http://libburnia-project.org/export/head/libisoburn/trunk/frontend/xorriso-tcltk xorriso is responsible for the composition and production of ISO 9660 and for the management of drive and optical medium. The GUI program cares for presentation and some user guidance. It issues commands to xorriso which manipulate or inquire the emerging filesystem model. I dare to state that libburn has more versatile Blu-ray support than cdrecord. It offers a choice between formatting and non-formatting, and on formatted BD media a choice between fast writing and checkreading while writing. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
