Hi, Chris Ahlstrom: > But are there any other CD/DVD writing engines out their?
Yes. libburn supports CD and single layer DVD with capabilities according to MMC-5. (That is about what growisofs can do - minus the capability to fabricate ISO-9660 multi-session on random access media which got no sessions.) CD capabilities stem from earlier developers of libburn and from my own studies of MMC-1 to MMC-3. I am very sure that there was no substantial flow of information from cdrecord into libburn. For libburn, see: http://libburnia.pykix.org/ cdrskin is the cdrecord compatibility application of libburn http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin_eng.html I'm the developer of cdrskin and also the currently active developer within libburn. > What about dvdrtools and dvd+rw-tools? dvd+rw-tools is the package around growisofs. It includes dvd+rw-format, dvd+rw-mediainfo, ... wodim got DVD capabilities from one of the cdrecord DVD patches. I believe to remember it was dvdrtools. When i implemented DVD support in libburn, it was clear to me that only growisofs can set the technical benchmark. I learned from it what was necessary to understand the DVD specs in MMC-5. > I also wonder where to find some advice about burning dual-layer DVDs. > I couldn't do it before. Might have been my old Liteon drive, which > later stopped working completely. growisofs claims to be able, cdrecord claims to be able. libburn has experimental code ready but i am waiting for somebody who is willing to risk a few DL media. They seem to be not very popular (understandable given the prices i see here). I would be interested in supporting experiments with DVD-R DL or DVD+R DL. First you should verify the DL capabilities of growisofs with and without option -use-the-force-luke=break:... Depending on the outcome i would try to talk you into running a test with cdrskin. If you plan to make tests with growisofs, give me a note. I will then re-read grwoisofs.c for more experiment ideas. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]